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Portrait of Lieutenant-General  Wei Yunsong

Wei Yunsong

Lieutenant-General

* 17th of June 1891

† 16th of December 1954

(韦云淞)

(Wei Yun-sung)

Promotions

1924-07-XX Lieutenant-Colonel (Post rank)
1924-11-XX Colonel (Post rank)
1926-07-XX Major-General (Post rank)
1928-11-19 Lieutenant-General (Post rank)
1936-01-25 Lieutenant-General

Service

1924-07-XX 1924-11-XX Attached to 3rd Regiment, Guangxi Route Expeditionary Army
1924-11-XX 1926-03-XX Commanding Officer 3rd Regiment, 3rd Column, 2nd Army, Guangxi Army
1926-03-XX 1926-07-XX Commanding Officer 11th Regiment, 6th Brigade, 7th Army
1926-07-XX 1927-07-XX Commanding Officer 6th Brigade, 7th Army
1927-07-XX 1927-09-19 Deputy Commanding Officer 6th Division, 7th Army
1927-09-19 1928-04-13 Deputy Commanding Officer 3rd Division, 15th Army
1928-04-13 1928-06-12 Deputy Commanding Officer 51st Division
1928-06-12 1928-11-19 Commanding Officer 38th Division
1928-11-19 1929-01-20 Deputy Commanding 1st Provisional Division, 4th Army Group
1928-11-19 1929-01-20 Commanding Officer 1st Brigade, 1st Provisional Division, 4th Army Group
1929-01-20 1929-04-07 Deputy Commanding Officer 14th Division
1929-01-20 1929-04-07 Commanding Officer 40th Brigade, 14th Division
1929-04-07 Leaves for Hong Kong
1929-05-XX Returns to the Mainland
1929-05-XX 1929-07-XX Commanding Officer 15th Brigade, 5th Division, Guangxi Reorganization & DeMobilisation Area
1929-07-XX 1929-09-03 Commanding Officer Independent Brigade, Guangxi Reorganization & DeMobilisation Area
1929-09-03 1929-11-XX Unemployed
1929-11-XX 1930-08-XX Commanding Officer Nanning Garrison Command
1930-04-XX 1932-09-XX Supervisor of Flooding in Guangxi
1930-08-XX 1935-01-28 Commanding Officer 45th Division
1934-09-XX 1937-03-03 Deputy Commanding Officer 15th Army
1935-01-28 1936-06-XX Commanding Officer 43rd Division, 15th Division
1936-10-01 1937-09-18 Member of Guangxi Provincial Government
1936-10-01 1937-09-18 Chief of Construction Department, Guangxi Provincial Government
1937-03-03 1937-09-29 Deputy Commanding Officer 48th Army
1937-09-29 1938-02-16 Commanding Officer 48th Army
1938-02-16 1944-11-XX Commanding Officer 31st Army
1939-11-01 1941-07-31 Deputy Commander in Chief 16th Army Group
1944-09-XX 1944-11-XX Commanding Officer Guilin Garrison Command
1944-11-XX Removed from his command
1944-11-XX 1948-06-XX Unemployed
1948-06-XX 1949-11-XX Inspector-General for Opium Prohibition, Guangxi province
1949-11-XX Leaves for Hong Kong
Picture source: Courtesy of Tom Chan