Over the next two months I am aiming to post as much as possible about the Asian ANZACs, mostly (all?) Chinese Diggers, with the aim of providing information along with photos, rego papers, articles and other links of those who served. My main aim is to cover all the wars up to and including WWII and have this information up well before ANZAC day.
There is a site called the Australian Chinese Ex-Services National Reunion which will have similar information but the website is under construction (the links go nowhere) and has been like that for many years now. I messaged the webmaster, whose dad was in WWII, and he said that they haven't got the required government funding so the site will remain as it is for the time being. He didn't give an indication of when the site will get updated.
This is not good for me as I am quite impatient so I am going to jump the gun and provide my own version.
These are some of the people I'll be covering:
Caleb Shang
Billy Sing
Jack Wong Sue
This is a small list but these are only the ones that I can recall off the top of my head. I'm hoping to do at least 50 posts.
I'll also include nurses and labourers where that information exists. The contribution of people in these professions during times of war are usually overlooked.
A big challenge will be including information about Kiwi ANZACs (can't leave the kiwis out can we?). A quick search on google revealed jack all links, but I'll get to that later.