RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1971 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/z029vt43g # THE COLONY OF HONG KONG # 187 As I walked out, after the service, round the wall of the city, I had a singular and pleasing rencontre with a countryman and fellow-townsman of my own. Passing the quarters of the English troops, near the Five-storied Pagoda, a fine-looking fellow of the Engineers came panting up the hill, and addressing me, said, “Are you Mr. Legge of Hongkong?” "Yes, but I do not know that ever I saw you before." "But you have," said he, bursting into the sweet Aberdeenshire Doric; "I cam oot for the wark here, and we hadna time to land at Hongkong, or I would hae come to see ye. Dinna ye ken the sma toon o' Huntly in Aberdeenshire?" "I know Huntly well, and so, I suppose, do you. Are you from Huntly?" "Eh! aye. D'ye mind the Piries at the brig-fitt?" All I could do, I could not bring the Piries to my recollection; but this was one of them, John Pirie; and seeing that he had the Victoria Cross on his breast, I touched it, and said, "Weel, I see you hae na been disgracing oor sma toon; what did ye get this for?" "It was a sma matter, and nae worth speaking about." "But tell me what ye got it for." "Weel, ye see, I was in the Crimea in the attack on the Redan. You ken it was a failure, an' we had to retreat, and many o' oor men were i' the open exposed to the fire o' the Russians. I was wounded mysel', but nae sae sair that I couldna keep the field, and I thought I would try and bring aff some o' these men. An' I did sae, an' they thought it was a brave thing, and gied me this cross for it. But it was a sma matter; I couldna but dee't.” On returning from Canton, I started for a short visit to England by way of Calcutta. I reached that city on the day that news came down to it of the taking of Lucknow; and a few weeks after I sailed for home in the same steamer with Sir John Inglis, and many officers of the garrison of Lucknow, and many widows also whose husbands had died there. You may be sure the passage was not tedious with such companions, but I have not time to dwell on my intercourse with them, and many of the thrilling narratives about the siege which I received from their lips. In September, 1859, I was back here again, and found that Sir Hercules Robinson had arrived a little before me as our new Governor. The news also greeted me of the violation of the T'ëentsin treaty by the Chinese, and of the defeat of our fleet at ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 83 Appendix C [1] Members of the Chinese Labour Corps buried or commemorated other than in Belgium and France (As shown on the lists provided by the CWGC and not mentioned in this article) Alexandria [Hadra] War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt Quang Lung-ye [60919] Hong Kong Cemetery Capt W Greenhill Sai Wan [China] Memorial 17th May 1919 18th February 1920 Medical Officer Alexander Kidd Baxter, RAMC att CLC Civilian Pascoe Thornton, CLC Taranto Town Cemetery Extension, Italy 14th March 1918 10th April 1917 Soot Chin [1469] 62nd Company CLC 26th June 1918 Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Capt T L Bryson, Labour Corps att CLC 16th April 1919 Those buried in the UK, the graves of whom I have not visited, [as shown on the lists provided by the CWGC and also not mentioned in this article] Llanberis [St Peris] Churchyard, Carnarvonshire Pte William Owen, Royal Welch Fusiliers, tfr to Sgt CLC 11 April 1921 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 88 Bradley [Shanghai] Appx E to CLC in France Chinese Labour Corps Cemeteries Details from list of names from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, showing the graves of labourers and of other nationals who were serving with or attached to the CLC. This list does not include names on memorials. Chinese Other nationals (non-Chinese) BELGIUM Brandhoek New Military No 3, Ieper 1 Croonaert Chapel, Heuvelland 1 Dozinghem Military, Poperinge 3 2 Gwalia, Ieper 4 Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military, Poperinge Kezelberg Military, Wevelgem Klein-Vierstraat British, Heuvelland Kortrijk (St Jean) Communal, Kortrijk Lijssenthoek Military, Poperinge 4 8 35 3 Mendinghem Military, Poperinge 8 7 New Irish Farm, Ieper Poperinge New Military, Poperinge Poperinge Old Military, Poperinge Reninghelst New Military, Poperinge Westoutre British, Heuvelland CANADA Halifax (Fort Massey), Nova Scotia 1 EGYPT Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, I FRANCE 1 I 7 3 ================================================================================