The men of the Chinese Labour Corps may well have been familiar with the tenth day of the tenth month as being China’s national day: it was the anniversary of the start of the Xinhai Revolution – the revolution that would bring an end to over 2,000 years of dynastic rule in China.<\/p>\n
Deaths among the Chinese Labour Corps on this day were high.<\/p>\n
CHANG TE K’UN \u00a0‘6337’ 1917
\nCHAO PANG HSIEN ‘28981’ 1917
\nCHIA PEN LI ‘28885’ 1917
\nCHOU CH’ANG MEI ‘50319’ 1917
\nLI TSO CHI ‘28648’ 1917
\nLIU HAI CH’ENG ‘70181’ 1919
\nSANG KUAN I ‘28984’ 1917
\nSHANG CHING FANG ‘63009’ 1918
\nSUI WEN FU ‘28968’ 1917
\nWANG LAO HO ‘28734’ 1917
\nYANG FU YUAN ‘101762’ 1918
\nYANG JU CHI ‘9825’ 1919<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWe remember them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The men of the Chinese Labour Corps may well have been familiar with the tenth day of the tenth month as being China’s national day: it was the anniversary of the start of the Xinhai Revolution – the revolution that would bring an end to over 2,000 years of dynastic rule in China. Deaths among … <\/p>\n