This is the earliest photograph of the Chinese Marine Corps, taken in Shanghai in 1916, what are the stories of this service? First of all, the equipment of these Marines, especially the soft-brimmed round hats,

This is the earliest photograph of the Chinese Marine Corps, taken in Shanghai in 1916, what are the stories of this service?

First of all, the equipment of these Marines, especially the soft-brimmed round hats, still retains some of the appearance of the newly built army of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the origin of the Chinese Marine Corps is in the late Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, drawing lessons from the poor coordination between land and sea in the Sino-Japanese War, he learned from the Western Marine Corps and formed the Marine Officers' Guard in 1910, which was later changed to the Admiralty Guard. In 1914, the Republic of China officially reorganized the Admiralty Guard into the Marine Corps, stationed in Beijing, Shanghai and Fuzhou.

Secondly, during the Beiyang warlord melee, the navy and the army rushed everywhere to grab territory, and the Marine Corps was the only hope of the navy to grab territory. By 1927, with the victory of the Northern Expedition, the Navy once again gave play to the fine tradition of the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, abandoning the dark and casting the Light early, and the Marine Corps has since participated in the Northern Expedition to beiyang and encircled and suppressed the Red Army, of course, it has also made its own contribution in the War of Resistance.

After the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the Marine Corps was completely abolished and re-established in 1947, but within two years they fled to Taiwan.

#Old Photos#History# #上海 #