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An estimated ten thousand Chinese, brought in by the French and British died in World War 1. Most were victims of either shelling, landmines, or the worldwide Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. They are buried in about 30 French graveyards, the largest at Noyelles-sur-Mer on the Somme, near where some of the fiercest battles occurred. That cemetery contains 842 gravestones Chinese characters and guarded by two stone lions, gifts from the Chinese Government.

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