Friday December 13th. Finally left Graudenz by train at midnight on this day. Here’s the Naval Officer’s account (see my diary entries for December 10th and December 12th):
At midnight on December 13 the camp was evacuated, and after a most trying and miserable train journey of 13 hours we arrived at Neufahrwasser, embarked in the Danish transport Mitau, and left for Leith. I rejoined my ship at Copenhagen.
Colonel and his “boys.”: Refusal to leave them in prison camp