Chinese Labour Corps
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chinese-labour-corps-170-6720291
title:
Chinese Labour Corps
text:
The Chinese Labour Corps was a force of workers recruited by the British government in the First World War to free troops for front line duty by performing support work and manual labour. The French government also recruited a significant number of Chinese labourers, and although those labourers working for the French were recruited separately and not part of the CLC, the term is often used to encompass both groups. In all, some 140,000 men served for both British and French forces before the wa
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Workers for the British Army in WWI
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Labour_Corps
date created:
2008-09-20T19:32:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T00:47:32Z
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