Philperiodicals

World War veterans in the Philippines

The American Chamber of Commerce Journal was the official monthly publication of the eponymous institution in the Philippines. It was published between 1921 and 1976, when it was substituted by the AmCham Business Journal, which makes it one of the longest-standing publications in the UPD collection. In November 1934, it published a list of First World War veterans living in the archipelago. Although most of them were American, it also included British, Italian, Japanese, and Belgian veterans, and announced the publication of a German war veteran list.  Although there is little context, it suggests how the Great War had an indirect impact on the archipelago, also through immigrants from belligerent countries and US. military personnel during the last years of the Philippine Commonwealth. Some of the Word War Veterans listed as members either of the U.S. army or the American Legion (a non-profit organization of U.S. war veterans), like the members of the Macabebe Post No 3, could be in fact some of the few known Filipinos to have taken part in the world conflict.

Fecha

1934-11

Fuente

"World War Veterans in the Philippines", The American Chamber of Commerce Journal, vol. XIV, num. 11, November 1934, pp. 21-23. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Baldoz, Rick. 2011. The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946. New York, USA: New York University Press.
Lee Esther Kim. 2022. Made-Up Asians: Yellowface during the Exclusion Era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

English

Materia

Philippine National Guard

Philippine veterans

The American Chamber of Commerce

World War I