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The Chinese Labour Corps in the IWM Photographic Archive

Articles 

 

 

Edition of Stand To !

 

Behind the Lines (2) Chinese Labour Corps - Weihaiwei, North-East Coast Shantung Peninsula, China (Peter T. Scott) 

   

Stand To ! No. 4  Spring 1982

One Man's War (9) with The Chinese Labour Corps - France 1918 by Norman Mellor 

 

Stand To ! No.29 Summer 1990

Behind the Lines (15) Chinese mechanics working on engines in the Tank Workshops

 

Stand To ! No. 29 Summer 1990

The Camera Returns (19) Chinese Labour Corps, Noyelles-Sur-Mer by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall 

 

Stand To ! No.36 Winter 1992

The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1921 - Sources of Oral History by Brian Fawcett

 

Stand To ! No.84 December 2008 / January 2009 

Clearing the Battlefields the Chinese Labour Corps in 1919 by Dominek Dendooven

 

Stand To ! No. 116 

 

Book Reviews

                        

Edition

 

China on the Western Front. Britain's Chinese Workforce in the First World War by Michael Summerskill 

                     

Stand To! No.8 Summer 1983

For King & Country: Canada and the Chinese Labour Corps in the Great War by Judy Maxwell 

 

Stand To ! No.76 April 2006 

 

Stand To! is published three times a year and runs to 117 editions. The archive is available online to members of The Western Front Association. 

 

IMAGES (c) IWM: British soldiers and men of the Chinese Labour Corps working in the timber yard at Caestre, 14 July 1917. (c) IWM Q 5897; Workers of the Chinese Labour Corps washing tanks at the Central Workshops, Tank Corps. Teneur, spring 1918. Q 9900; A Chinese worker with a model junk at the Chinese Labour Corps Camp at Caestre, 14 July 1917. Q 5900: A Chinese labourer eating whilst crouched on the ground, near Lillers, 11 March 1918.Q 10736

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