TCD MS 10823 folio 46 recto
[12 Dec 1918] Danish officers, who thanked us for all that we had done for their country and made us feel absolutely at home at once. Everyone on board spoke English and their only object seemed <to be> to make us comfortable.
We anchored for the night outside the harbour as it was blowing hard with driving snow and they dared not go through the German minefields in the dark. The following morning we passed safely through the mine fields and after a very rough passage arrived at Copenhagen in the afternoon.
Here we were distributed among the Hotels in and around Copenhagen, and were entertained the whole time free of cost. The hospitality and kindness that we received at the hands of the Danes from the highest to the lowest passes all descriptions and there is not a British Officer who passed through Copenhagen and who will not always treasure a warm corner in his heart for the Danes.
The comforts of civilization, the good food and above all the sense of freedom and the ability to meet with and to talk to different people of the opposite sex proved of the greatest pleasure to us. I do not think that I have ever seen a happier or more contented lot of faces than I saw in Copenhagen.
Our stay there was only for four days, after which we were shipped on board a British transport. On the way through the Katregat and the Skagetack we passed through many floating mines, some of which our escorting cruiser blew up, but the sea they say will