Marshal Wang Huai-ch'ing
王慶字然宣
Marshal Wang Huai-ch'ing was born at Ning-chin Hsien, Chihli province, in 1866. He received a good education at home in his youth. When he was grown up, he gave up his classics study and entered the Military Academy, Tientsin. He was a member of the second graduating class of that institution. After graduation he became an instructor in Genera! Nieh Shih-cheng's army. During the Sino-Japanes? War he participated in the Mukden campaign and displayed unprecedented bravery during the fight at Taikuling. Later Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Chihli, appointed him commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Peiyang Army. In 1907 when the present President Hsu Shih-chang was Viceroy of the Three Eastern Provinces, transferred Marshal Wang thither and appointed him Co-director of the Department of military affairs.
