Background
Mr. Chen was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, China in 1891.
Mr. Chen was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, China in 1891.
Chen Tsoa graduated from Paoting Military College.
In 1917 Mr. Chen was a commander of Artillery Corps of the First Mixed Brigade of Kwangtung (Guangdong) Army. In 1918 he became an adjutant officer in the Headquarters of Commander-in-Chief of the Kwangtung (Guangdong) Expeditionary Army to Fukien (Fujian). Chen Tsao was appointed battalion commander of the Independent Brigade of the Army since 1919.
Mr. Chen took up the post of a senior staff officer to the Headquarters of the Generalissimo with the rank of Colonel, Canton, in 1923, concurrently he was a staff officer to the Headquarters of the Commander of Changchow (Zhangzhou) Forts (Fukien (Fujian)).
In 1924 and later he worked as a Chief of Staff Office, of the Headquarters of Kuomintang Party Forces. Since 1925 Chen Tsao served as a Chief of Staff Office of the 1st Army of Nationalist Revolutionary Forces and concurrently Superintendant of the Dyke Work at Swatow.
Then Chen Tsoa resumed his office as a Chief of Staff Office of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Revolutionary Forces and concurrently director of the military operations department in 1926. He was appointed Commander of 26th Nationalist Army October 1926.
Upon reorganization of the Army into the 6th Division, Lt.-Gen. Chen Tsoa was appointed Commander of the Division (1928). In 1929 he was elected a delegate to the National Third Kuomintang Party Congress, and in the same year was appointed member of the Military Disbandment and Reorganization Commission of the National Forces (1928).
In 1931 Chen Tsao was a member of standing committee of the War History Compilation Commission. Chief of the military-official registration bureau of the Military Affairs Commission and later acting Director of the Second Department of the General Staff since 1932. Then Lt.-Gen. Chen Tsoa was appointed commissioner of Nanking Constabulary.