As our daily In Memoriam posts show, many Chinese Labour Corps men died well after the last guns had been fired, and the overwhelming majority of surviving combatant and non-combatant forces had returned home, mostly to be received as heroes.

For the Chinese the four year war began not in 1914 to end in 1918, but rather began in 1916, and for significant numbers was not over until 1920. And as we shall discover in a future posting, their homecoming carried no victorious overtones, quite the contrary.