[A]t the end of last month the War Office performed a remarkable about turn. Having been utterly opposed to the hiring of Chinese labourers before the Battle of the Somme, it’s now clear that the manpower situation has entirely changed. This could be a war of attrition, and minister of war David Lloyd George has just authorised the opening of negotiations, …
Daily Archives: October 14, 2016
In Memoriam, 14 October
Three men of the Chinese Lbour Corps died on this day HEI CH’I SHUN ‘34069’ 1919 WANG CHIN LUNG ‘25091’ 1919 YANG HSUEH SHIH ‘48305’ 1918 We Remember Them