{"id":335,"date":"2024-09-27T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=335"},"modified":"2024-09-27T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:56:50","slug":"new-headstones-in-quebec-city-for-two-chinese-labour-corps-men-who-died-en-route-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"New Headstones in Quebec City for two Chinese Labour Corps Men Who Died en route to France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Very grateful to Dr. Catherine Paterson, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Regional Manager for Canada and the Americas who has told me that the long-awaited headstones for Chinese Labour Corps members Han Hsiang T’ai (Han Xiangtai, No. 31277) and Chang Hsueh P’u (Zhang Xuepu, No. 51100) have been installed at Quebec City (Mount Hermon) Cemetery. The markers are located in Section C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The newly installed headstones in Quebec City for Han Hsiang T’ai and Chang Hsueh P’u. Photo courtesy: Dr. Catherine Paterson, CWGC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Paterson and the team at the Canadian agency of the CWGC office in Ottawa offered tremendous assistance during the research phase of Harry Livingstone’s Forgotten Men: Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War<\/em>, published in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both men were bound for war-torn Europe to work behind the lines during the First World War, and died while travelling across Canada as part of large CLC contingents in 1917. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very grateful to Dr. Catherine Paterson, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Regional Manager for Canada and the Americas who has told me that the long-awaited headstones for Chinese Labour Corps members Han Hsiang T’ai (Han Xiangtai, No. 31277) and Chang Hsueh P’u (Zhang Xuepu, No. 51100) have been installed at Quebec City (Mount Hermon) Cemetery. … Continue reading “New Headstones in Quebec City for two Chinese Labour Corps Men Who Died en route to France”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7,9,8,10],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-labour-corps","tag-chinese-labour-corps","tag-chinese-labour-corps-deaths-in-canada","tag-first-world-war","tag-harry-livingstones-forgotten-men","tag-wartime-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}