The Siege of Tsingtao saw 1,500 British troops sent in to ally with Japan to take German territories in the Shandong province of eastern China in October and November 1914, shortly after the war ...

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.

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.

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.