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On 22 September 1917, Siam declared war on the German and Austro-Hungarian empires.Immediately, 320 German and Austro-Hungarian nationals were put under guard, with 193 non-diplomatic males being peacefully interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bangkok. 124 German women and children, including the Thai wives and children of German men, were interned at the German Club.
Therefore, the Thai forces interned and then confiscated at least 12 ocean-going ships of the North German Line as war reparations. [1] [2] Thailand (Siam) sent an expeditionary force of 1,284 volunteers under Phraya Thephatsadin to serve with French and British forces on the Western Front. They included a contingent of the Army Air Corps.
Major General Phraya Pichai Charnyarit (Phad Devahastin Na Ayudhaya), commander of the Siamese Expeditionary Forces.. While the troops were being assembled, trained and receiving smallpox vaccinations, an advance mission led by Major-General Phraya Pichai Charnyarit (1877-1951), commander of the expeditionary force, traveled to Europe in January 1918 to make preparations for the troops’ arrival.
The Siamese and the Vietnamese were also the only two Southeast Asian nations to fight in the war. [8] Siam sent Siamese Expeditionary Forces to mainland Europe, and participate in the Paris Peace Conference to become a founding member of the League of Nations, overall increasing its international standing and modernizing both their army and ...
Siam joined World War I in 1917 on the Allies side, earning Siam an opportunity to re-negotiate and abolish Western extraterritoriality in Siam. According to Article 135 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) , extraterritorial jurisdiction of Germany and Austria-Hungary in Siam were retrospectively terminated from 1917 because they were war losers ...
Thai victory [19] Japanese-mediated armistice [20] Siem Reap, Phra Tabong, Sisophon ceded to Thailand; Battle of Ko Chang (1941) Japanese invasion of Thailand (1941) Location:Thailand. Map of the Japanese invasion of Thailand, December 8, 1941: Thailand: Japan: Ceasefire. Thai alliance with Japan Thailand declares war on the Allied Powers.
Thai soldiers boarding a USAF aircraft, during the Vietnam War. [citation needed] Thailand's military history in the post-war period was dominated by the growth of Communism across the region, which rapidly became one of the fault lines in the Cold War. Thailand's successive governments found that the Communist bloc in south-east Asia largely ...
One version of the map of Thailand's territorial losses, listing eight instances of losses to the French and British colonial empires. The territorial losses of Thailand is a concept in Thai historiography, referring to conflicts during the Rattanakosin period of Thailand (or Siam as it was historically known) where the country was forced to cede territory, especially to the Western powers of ...