Labour corps

Labour corps

Labour Corps may be:

*A forerunner of the British Royal Pioneer Corps
*Solomon Islands Labour Corps, a Second World War organisation in the British Solomon Islands
*Chinese Labour Corps, a British corps in the First World War


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