Chinese Labour Corps III

After posting a couple of times on the Chinese Labour Corps I’m delighted that a reader informs me that the US-based academic Xu Guoqi has apparently done a major study in Chinese (and French) and is writing up a book in English on the CLC. Xu wrote the excellent China and the Great War (Cambridge UP 2005), a few years back which also has a section on the CLC. I look forward to Xu’s book.

In the meantime – given that, as I’ve noted before, this year (now almost over) is the 90th anniversary of the Armistice I’m hoping more people become aware of the CLC that operated for both the French and the British in WW1. Here’s a few pics of them:

Moving timber near the front

A group of CLC on the Western Front

A group of CLC men celebrating Chinese New Year on the Western Front