As part of a BBC series looking at stories beyond the trenches, Carol Yarwood from the BBC Chinese service recounts the siege of Tsingtao. Graphics by Charlie Newland. WW1: The Siege of Tsingtao.

But few people remember the siege of Tsingtao, which ended 100 years ago today. On November 7, 1914, German troops holed up in a fortress on the Chinese coast surrendered to Japanese forces.

After a subsequent minor British naval attack on the German colony in 1914, Japan occupied the city and the surrounding province during the Siege of Tsingtao after Japan's declaration of war on ...

Launching a Maurice Farman seaplane from the Wakamiya during the Siege of Tsingtao in the fall of 1914. Credit: Wikimedia Commons via History Channel The Christmas Day raid on Cuxhafen in December ...

The Siege of Tsingtao was the sole battle of World War I fought in East Asia, and total deaths were in the hundreds, far from the carnage Europe would see during its four-year slaughter.

He took part in the 1914 Siege of Tsingtao, where allied Japanese and British forces attacked Germany’s East Asian foothold in the city. Riichi, who was a fireman 2nd class aboard the Destroyer ...

When World War I broke out in August 1914 and when Japan entered on the side of Britain, those two allies moved to lay siege to Tsingtao. The German garrison surrendered after two months.

As a child, the German military officer heard that the Imperial Japanese Army took the younger brother of his great-grandfather prisoner during the Siege of Tsingtao in World War I.

As part of a BBC series looking at stories beyond the trenches, Carol Yarwood from the BBC Chinese service recounts the siege of Tsingtao.

As part of a BBC series looking at stories beyond the trenches, Carol Yarwood from the BBC Chinese service recounts the siege of Tsingtao.

The world’s first naval-launched air raid took place during the siege of Tsingtao in the first year of World War I.