TCD MS 10823 folio 16 recto
[April 13th 1918] There was much speculation among us as to what kind of camp we were going to, as no one seemed to know anything about Furstenberg, not even where it was.
The German officer who was in charge of us <was> in appearance most fierce <looking> with a great bristling moustache, but <was> actually very pleasant and went out of his way to be agreeable to us. Throughout the journey <he> got us papers and provided us with meals whenever possible. Our two 2nd Class carriages were attached to any goods train or slow train that was going in the direction of Furstenberg, and in consequence it took us 51 hours to get there. On the way we passed many troop trains going to the Western front, decorated with boughs outside the windows. The men were all full of hope that the war would be over in a couple of months. We saw also many overcrowded Hospital trains going in the opposite direction, which cheered us up, as it shewed that the Germans were being made to pay very dearly for their victories.
At Frankfurt We had a meal of sausages and potatoes, and another at Cassel, far better and more plentiful food than any thing we had had in the camps up till now. At Berlin we arrived at three in the morning, but were kept there nearly nine hours shunting about from station to station; however after a breakfast of bread and sausage we were attached to a train which brought us to Furstenberg in the course of the afternoon.