Plymouth Graves Visit. 

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Following on from the sub groups research into the Efford graves an outing was arranged to visit the graves and the Devonport Heritage Centre. 

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Hikmat Remembers: Chinese Graves by Brenda. 

Last week I decided to start looking at the Efford World War One Chinese Labour Corps graves in Plymouth. To begin with there was a lot of information on the Plymouth Site. After being able to get all the names from the 8 Headstones (pictures attached) I thought that after our launch I would start to identify each person as an individual and collect any further information available.

I initially thought that it would not be too difficult, but have now realised that the information held on each of the 8 Privates has been recorded using different spellings and interpretations of their names. All 8 were identified using their Service Number only – and for many there were many different spellings for their name.

Names and Services Numbers were found on the Commonwealth Graves Commission Site on line. (Please see list of graves). Hikmat Remembers Project has applied for the death certificate of Shong Wang Pei . More to come……….when we get the death certificate

List of Graves
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Death Certificate
The Death certificate has been ordered for:
Wang Pu Sheng, who died on the 3 July 1917
Copy received
Death certificate of Wang Pei Sheng 

The certificate showed that Wang Pei Sheng had been a Private in the Chinese Labour Corps. He had come from Northern China, and had died from Gastritis and Diarrhoea in Ford Military Hospital Plymouth.  
Death certificate for Shun-Yu-Tsai
Death certificate for Yang Wu Lin