RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 50 Doe who was serving at that time with the 51 Signal Company [RE] and based, I think, at Bailleul, was hoping to watch a football match. As the Chinese were running loose, armed with improvised weapons, he, with others, was ordered to shoot the Chinese to quell this mutiny. Eight were shot on the pitch and 93 were captured. In West Outre British Cemetery, Heuvelland, Belgium, there are the graves of 3 members of the CLC killed on Christmas Day, 1917, namely Chang Cheh-te [43804], Chang Hung-an [39540] and Wu En-lu [43913], all of the 105th Company, CLC. Three members of the CLC were charged with mutiny and striking: on 9 May 1918, 1968, for mutiny and striking, was sentenced to two years hard labour. Also on the 9 May 1918 40749 was charged with the same offences and sentenced to one year hard labour. On 12 May 1918, 25348 was charged with mutiny, insubordination and disobedience for which he was sentenced to six months hard labour though this sentence was revised and later quashed. Numbers of those Recruited and Fatalities Over 94,500 Chinese, recruited for the British Chinese Labour Corps, served in France and, of these, 1834 died in France, 279 died at sea on the way home and 32 could not be traced. These figures are quoted from Summerskill and conflict with those given in an article in the Sunday Times magazine, "Chinese dig Britain's trenches" by J. Hamilton-Paterson. He quotes the British Government as saying that 93,474 had been recruited of which number 91,452 labourers had been returned to China, 1949 had died in Europe and 73 had died on the return journey. The figures cannot be considered as accurate as a small proportion of men had gone to ground in France and some detached themselves in Canada. Some Labourers formed attachments with French women and oft times children were born. At a later date they returned to China with their wives and children. The exact number is not known, but French sources quote about 30,000, which appears excessive. These figures may be further confused if those in Norman Mellor's article9 are taken as correct. He stated that 97,934 were recruited by the British and at the end of the War there were 195 Companies working in the areas of the five armies or on the Lines of Communication. He does not quote a figure. Mellor was posted to the 4th Bedfordshire Regiment in March 1918, his 19th birthday, saw action on the Albert-Bapaume road and remained with his regiment until the Armistice. Being too ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 53 Of those from the Chinese Customs Service in Shanghai who served with the Allied Forces, the names of 23 are on their Roll of Honour and have been buried or commemorated not only in the UK, Belgium and France but also in Greece and Turkey. Decorations Many Chinese members of the CLC received the British War Medals but this is a subject into which I have not carried out any research. The Meritorious Service Medal for devotion to duty was awarded to Zhao Wende [30828] and Wang Chenjing [30064], both Labourers of the 57th Company CLC, and to Liu Dianzhen, Class One Ganger of the 108th Company CLC. Also to Wang Yushao [15333] Labourer of the 59th Company CLC [of Da Cheng county in Zhili] for bravery, his citation reading: Near Marcoing [near Cambrai] on June 6th, 1919, he observed a fire on a dump of ammunition situated close to a Collecting Station. On his own initiative he rushed to the dump with two buckets of water which he threw on the fire and then seized a burning British 'P' Bomb [apparently the cause of the outbreak] and hurled it to a safe distance from the dump. He then continued to extinguish the burning dump which had spread to the surrounding grass in which rifle grenades and German shells were lying. By his initiative, resource and disregard of personal safety this Labourer averted what might have been a serious explosion. Yan Dengfeng [91085], Class One Ganger of the 130th Company CLC was also awarded this decoration for: On 23rd May 1919 at Bailleul [near Armentieres] following an explosion, he worked constantly for four hours removing tarpaulins from the stacks of ammunition and drenching them with water. Sgt W J Yaxley [553653] British Army, serving with the 60th Company CLC was also awarded this medal. The Chinese Order of Wenhu [The Order of the Striped Tiger] ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n Abbeville Communal Extension, Somme Albert French National, Somme Arques-La-Bataille British, Seine-Maritime Ascq Communal, Nord Auberchicourt British, Nord * Ayette British, Pas de Calais Ayette Indian and Chinese, Pas de Calais Bagneux British, Gezaincourt, Somme Bailleul Communal Extension, Nord 1 71 4 3 I 34 2 31 Beaulencourt British, Ligny-Thilloy, Pas de Calais 14 Bellicourt British, Aisne Blargies Communal Extension, Oise Bourlon Wood, Pas de Calais Caudry British, Nord Charmes Military, Essegney, Vosges Chocques Military, Pas de Calais 7 3 21 1 3 19 4 1 16 Croisilles British, Pas de Calais Cross Roads, Nord 2 2 Daours Communal Extension, Somme Dernancourt Communal Extension, Somme 6 3 Don Communal, Annoeullin, Nord 2 Douai British, Cuincy, Nord 3 Doullens Communal Extension No2, Somme 1 Duisans British, Etrun, Pas de Calais 2 Ebblinghem Military, Nord 1 Etaples Military, Pas de Calais 1 4 Foncquevillers Military, Pas de Calais 2 Hazebrouck Communal, Nord Fosse No 10 Communal Extension, Sains-en-Gohelle, Pas de Calais Gezaincourt Communal Extension, Somme Haute-Avesnes British, Pas de Calais Huby-St Leu British, Pas de Calais Lapugnoy Military, Pas de Calais Le Fermont Military, Pas de Calais 49 4 12 1 5 2 Le Portel Communal, Pas de Calais 1 Le Quesnoy Communal Extension, Nord 2 Les Baraques Military, Sangatte, Pas de Calais 197 4 Les Rues-des-Vignes Communal, Nord 1 Lille Southern, Nord 2 2 89 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 86 3 İ 90 Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir, Pas de Calais Maroeuil British, Pas de Calais Maroilles Communal, Nord Mazargues War, Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone 8 Metz-en-Couture Communal British Extension, Pas de Calais Mondicourt Communal, Pas de Calais Noyelles-sur-Mer Chinese Cemetery, Somme 838 Noyelles-sur-Mer Chinese Memorial, Somme 41 Orival Wood, Flesquieres,Nord 1 Outtersteene Communal Extension, Bailleul, Nord 1 Pernes British, Pas de Calais Perreuse Chateau Franco British National, Seine-et-Marne 2 Pommereuil British, Nord Queant Communal British Extension, Pas de Calais Quirrieu British, Somme Ramillies British, Nord Rosieres Communal Extension, Somme 1 Ruminghem Chinese, Pas de Calais 75 Solesmes British, Nord 1 St Andre Communal, Nord 3 St Etienne-au-Mont Communal, Pas de Calais 147 St Pierre, Amiens, Somme St Sever Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime St Marie, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime Terlincthun British, Wimelle, Pas de Calais Tincourt New British, Somme Tourcoing (Pont-Neuville) Communal, Nord Vadencourt British, Maissemy, Aisne Villers-Carbonnel Communal, Somme HONG KONG Hong Kong Cemetery Sai Wan (China) Memorial ITALY Taranto Town Cemetery Extension 1 44 4 1 5 3 57 1 3 4 3 ================================================================================