Chinese Soldiers Deaths Liverpool?

[Hogan]

Hi All

I have 3 Chinese Labour Corps soldiers. Buried at Anfield cemetery in Liverpool.

Trying to find out if they died in Liverpool? Not finding them on the death records.

Any ideas?

Guo Dexiang (N°134274) who died on 6 July 1918

Liu Fengxiang (N°1311474) who died on 9 Aug 1918

Sheng Fan Chaun. No date of death given

Cheers

Ant

[Radcliff]

Sun c Sheng died west Derby September 1917,

[Hogan]

Thank You Radcliff 

I have no idea where to look. They are not in overseas deaths either?

[Radcliff]

We need some one with an interest in Chinese ,these poor souls were probably residents of Liverpool and went to war,who knows ,but the spellings could be way out,incidentally there are Shengs in the 1911 census for Liverpool,

[Radcliff]

I have just read an interesting little article on the Chinese Labour Corps ,they were brought to Liverpool on route to France,recruited by missionaries to do labouring for the troops,
God love them ,so they may never actually have served in France but become ill on their journey here,


Each person was fingerprinted and his records kept by Scotland yard,I wonder where they are now,

[Hogan]

Hi Radcliff. Where did you read it?

China sent some 140,000 labourers to France and Belgium, and the mud and barbed wire of the Western Front. They dug trenches, carried ammunition, toiled in docks and railway yards or worked in arms factories.

Nearly 100,000 Chinese labourers served near the front lines in Flanders, together with a few hundred Chinese students who were taken along as interpreters.  Over 40,000 more Chinese were scattered across France, working in the factories. They were volunteers, mostly poor farmers from coastal provinces like Shandong and Hebei, and some from Liaoning, Jilin, Jiangsu, Hunan, Anhui and Gansu. Attracted by high pay ( four times more than a labourer back in China ) and contracts that falsely promised they would be kept safely away from the fighting.  They were neutrals until China declared war on Germany in 1917, then they were paid as volunteers in a nominally civilian Chinese Labour Corps. They endured military discipline and served under British officers.

[Radcliff]

The Royal Asiatic society states that Scotland yard still have all the fingerprints,


Oh by the way I just googled Chines Labour corps in Liverpool and found a military site with links,

[Radcliff]

If you are interested in some background reading there is a book available to read on line through the Cornell University library,


not politically correct but the name of thebook is,
 serving with the Chinks,
written by
Daryl Klein,
2ND Lieutenant the Chinese labour corps,
first world war,

extremely interesting

[IMBER]

Seems likely the 1918 deaths were related to the flu epidemic?