British Chinese call for memorial to WWI labor corps
Updated: 2014-08-15 07:48
(Xinhua)
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Top: A unit of the Chinese Labour Corps passing through the ruined village of Vlamertinghe near Ypres, Belgium. Center left: Visitors to the former battlefields meeting Chinese laborers and their British officer in Flanders, Belgium in 1919. Center right: Wang Jinyong, a Chinese laborer. Above: A Chinese laborer amid the destroyed graves in the churchyard of the village of Dikkebus near Ypres of Belgium. [Photos Provided by in Flanders Fields Museum to China Daily] |
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