Background
Mr. Cheng was born in Liaoning, China.
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Kwei-lin Cheng
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Cheng Kwei-lin graduated from Chaoyang University of Technology, Peking (Beijing). Between 1928 and 1930 he received advanced training at the Mukden Military School.
Career
He served in the Kirin Court of Justice and later joined the Chinese Eastern Railway Defence Guards. After the fall of the after the fall of the Czarist Regime, he accompanied the Railway Guards to St. Petersburg, but soon returned to China. Mr. Cheng was appointed an inspecting officer attached to the 7th Brigade of Kirin Army in 1921. From 1922 he served as an adjutant officer to the 1st Detachment of the Forest Guards charged with suppression of the White Russian bandits.
After graduation from Mukden Military School (1928-1930), Cheng Kwei-lin became an adjutant officer in the 637th Regiment of 13th Brigade of the Northeastern Army. After the Japanese occupation of Mukden in September 18, 1931, he was prominently identified with the work of volunteers in Manchuria as Commander of 48th Route Volunteer Army.
Mr. Cheng fought against the Japanese at many important towns including Suichung, Hsincheng, Sin-Chwang-Tse, Pao-Kwang-Tze, Ping-Chuan-Ying, Shihmen, etc. and captured a large number of Japanese soldiers including many officers two of whom are named Tani and Tsuchii.
