PHOTOS: Memorial tablet for Chinese WWII soldiers arrives in Taipei from Myanmar

Yesterday in Taipei, a delegation bearing a memorial tablet dedicated to the Chinese Expeditionary Force (Burma) returned from northern Myanmar.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force took part in the Burma campaigns during the Second World War, fighting to retake and defend the only overland supply route remaining into unoccupied China.

Enshrining the tablet at the National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine is seen as finally returning the souls of the departed back to Republic of China soil, seven decades after they fell on the battlefields of north Burma.

The structure, located in Zhongshan District, houses the spirit tablets of about 390,000 persons killed, among other engagements, during the Xinhai Revolution, Northern Expedition, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, and the First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises.

Taiwan's Minister of National Defence Yen Ming took part in the ceremony.