ABSTRACT This article explores the biography and First World War experience of Private Charlie Some, a Black soldier from Natal, South Africa who served in the No. 2 Construction Company of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in 1917/1918 and was brutally murdered in France in the last months of the First World War. Contrary to the prevailing treatment of ‘the No. 2,’ which takes a national perspective on the unit and in the process conscripts it to national ideologies, this article argues that a transnational, imperial frame reveals how the violence and racism of empire shaped the experiences of Black soldiers in the Great War, including those who served in the No. 2, and that racism and imperial anxieties were defining features of the war itself.

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查理的战争：加拿大远征军中南非黑人的生死

摘要 本文探讨了 1917/1918 年在加拿大远征军 (CEF) 的第二建筑公司服役并在第一次世界大战最后几个月的法国。与普遍对待“2 号”的态度相反，后者以国家视角看待该单位，并在此过程中将其纳入国家意识形态，本文认为，跨国帝国框架揭示了帝国的暴力和种族主义如何塑造了黑人士兵在第一次世界大战中的经历，包括那些在 2 号中服役的人，种族主义和帝国焦虑是战争本身的决定性特征。