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Ep. 119 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Wenlan Peng
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Wenlan Peng, from the Meridian Society, talks about the Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front during the Great War. Your browser does not support the audio element.
The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front - a talk by Wenlan Peng
When Britain realised that the war would last longer than expected and was taking its toll on their soldiers at the Western Front, they looked east to China to recruit a labour force of men to work behind the lines. Nearly 100,000 men were shipped over from the province of Shandong to northern France and Flanders. This was the Chinese Labour Cor...