{"id":2854,"date":"2017-11-15T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2017-11-22T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T23:02:12","slug":"dertien-van-busseboom-the-busseboom-thirteen-and-belgiums-memorial-to-the-chinese-labour-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"Dertien van Busseboom – The Busseboom Thirteen and Belgium’s Memorial to the Chinese Labour Corps."},"content":{"rendered":"

Exactly one hundred years ago today thirteen members of the Chinese Labour Corps were killed when their camp received a direct hit during an air raid.<\/p>\n

Quite some gunfire at night. At the Poeper a Chinese camp is hit by shellfire. Several yellow men are killed.<\/p>\n

From the diary of local priest, Father van Walleghem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Chinese casualties were buried near the Roobaertbeek, but later exhumed and transferred to Bailleul Cemetery.
\nWe remember them:<\/p>\n

CHAO PING WEN Labourer 29119
\nKUO YU HIS Labourer 28996
\nLAN SHU THE Labourer 28995
\nLI CHI MAO Labourer 29009
\nLI HSI SHUN Labourer 29073
\nLIU PING KUEI Labourer 29038
\nLIU WAN CHI Labourer 29147
\nLUAN CHENG TSENG Labourer 29149
\nMA HSIAO LIN Labourer 28957
\nSHAO CHEN CHIANG Labourer 29501
\nWANG CHANG HO Labourer 29992
\nWANG CHANG HO Labourer 29135
\nWANG YUNG CHUN Labourer 29029<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On this, the centennial anniversary of that tragedy, a memorial to the Chinese labourers has been unveiled at the same spot in Poperinge. It is the first memorial in Belgium to the Chinese Labour Corps. France has two memorials, the first erected several decades ago. A third will be unveiled in Arras next month.<\/p>\n

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Of the countries directly involved, the UK is the only one that still has no public memorial to the Chinese Labour Corps, though our task to remedy this is getting closer to completion. Our congratulations to all those involved in the Poperinge memorial.<\/p>\n

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Exactly one hundred years ago today thirteen members of the Chinese Labour Corps were killed when their camp received a direct hit during an air raid. Quite some gunfire at night. At the Poeper a Chinese camp is hit by shellfire. Several yellow men are killed. From the diary of local priest, Father van Walleghem … <\/p>\n

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