Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chang Fu-lai

General Chang Fu-lai

張福來字子恒

General Chang Fu-lai was born at Chiaho Hsien, Chihli province, in 1871. He received a military education from a Military Academy in North China and started upon his military career as a common soldier. He has been in Marshal Tsao Kun's camp for more than thirty years during which period he has been promoted through various ranks. His name was not very well known until November 1917 when he was appointed Commander of the Sixth Brigade of the Third Division of the National Army, the Commander of the Fifth Brigade at that time being General Wu Pei-fu. At that time his military rank was Major General. In October 1919 General Chang received the Fourth Class Paokuang Chiaho Decoration. A year later he received the Second Class Chiaho Decoration. About the same time he was appointed the Commander of the Twenty-Fourth Division. In October 1921 General Chang was made a Lieutenant General. In July 1922 he was awarded the Chiangchun with an honorable title of the two words "Chin Wei." In October 1922 General Chang was appointed Commissioner for Military Affairs in Honan Province to succeed former Tuchun General Feng Yu-hsiang who had been promoted to be the All China High Military Inspector following the abolition of the Tuchunship in Honan. General Chang is still commanding the Twenty Fourth Division. In November 1922 General Chang received from the Peking Government the Fourth Order of Merit and about the same time was decorated with the First Class Wenfu Order. In April 1923 General Chang was given the brevet rank of General. In March 1924, General Chang was removed from the command of the Twenty-fourth Division, when all military governors were removed from division commands. The following month he received a concurrent post as co-director of motor road construction in the northern provinces, of which General Wu Pei-fu was director-General. In June 1924, General Chang was made a full General. He is still commissioner for military affairs of Honan.