Japanese dressing station, Tsingtao, October 1914

Photograph, World War One, Far East (1914-1918), 1914.

On 23 August 1914 Japan declared war on Germany. Eight days later 20,000 Japanese troops were landed near Germany's naval base at Tsingtao (Qingdao) in China. After a two month siege the Tsingtao garrison surrendered on 7 November 1914.

From an album of 24 photographs presented to Brig Gen, later Maj Gen, Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston.