Zhu Guisheng
Last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps
About Zhu Guisheng
Lived 1896 – 2002 (aged 105–106).
Zhu Guisheng (1896 – March 2002), was a Chinese electrician and the last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC).
Guisheng was from the Shandong province of China when in 1916 he signed a five-year contract to join the Chinese Labour Corps, through the Huimin Company. He possibly left Qingdao in August 1916, to join the Chinese Labour Corps in France. After the war, he remained in France.
Guisheng worked with the French, serving in the French Army, in the Second World War. He married a French woman and they had two children. He worked as an electrician and had also operated cranes. In 1989, he was one of only two surviving CLC members who were awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1989.
Guisheng died at the age of 106, in La Rochelle in March 2002. Until then he had been the last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps.
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Who was Zhu Guisheng?
last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps
When was Zhu Guisheng born?
Zhu Guisheng was born in 1896.
When did Zhu Guisheng die?
Zhu Guisheng died in 2002 in La Rochelle.
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Zhu Guisheng was known for Chinese Labour Corps.
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