Yu Hanmou

Yu Hanmou was a Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.

Biography

Yu was born in Guangdong in 1896. He graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in 1919. He joined the Kuomintang during this period. He served during the Encirclement campaigns against the Chinese communists during the 1930s, and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1936. During the war with Japan, he commanded the defense of Guangdong in the Canton Operation and the 1939-40 Winter Offensive. While Guangzhou was lost to the Japanese, Yu's forces were able to defeat the Japanese in northern Guangdong. Later in 1944 until the end of the war, he commanded the 7th War Area, participating in Operation Ichi-Go.
Yu was promoted to general in 1946, and later to commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Army in 1949. In 1949, during the final months of the Chinese Civil War, his forces were defeated by the Chinese communists in Guangdong, with only Hainan Island being under Nationalist control. Yu led later led the Nationalist evacuation from Hainan to Taiwan in May 1950. There, he served as a strategic advisor and was promoted to colonel general in 1965. He died of cancer in Taipei in 1981.