Yang Lim

Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) Marxism–Leninism 1901–1936 ✕ Killed in action

Korean revolutionary, Cheongsan-ri instructor and Long March staff officer, killed crossing the Yellow River in 1936

Born in North Pyongan, his real name was Kim Hun. After the March First Movement of 1919, in which his father was killed, he trained at the Sinheung Military Academy and fought at Cheongsan-ri in 1920 as an instructor. After the Yunnan Military Academy he taught Korean cadets as an instructor at Whampoa in Guangzhou, fought in the Eastern Expedition of 1925 and joined the Communist Party that year. A battalion commander in Ye Ting's Independent Regiment, he fought in the Northern Expedition and the Guangzhou Uprising. After further training in Moscow he went to Manchuria in 1930 as a provincial military secretary. As Bi Shiti he set out on the Long March in October 1934 as chief of staff of the Red Army cadres' regiment, and in February 1936, as chief of staff of the 15th Corps' 75th Division, he was killed leading the assault team across the Yellow River on the Eastern Expedition.

Also known as: Kim Hun · Bi Shiti · Yang Lin