TCD MS 10823 folio 15 recto
[March/April 1918] there for two or three days, and as we remained there for a fortnight we met officers of nearly every division, and so were able to get news of friends and to piece together the happenings since March 21st. Many of the wounded officers had undergone terrible hardships since their capture, remaining for days in open trucks, with their wounds neglected and full of maggots, and no one making any attempt to look after them.
On April 12th the usual routine was varied by an air raid alarm. Sirens blew and guns fired, and all the Germans retired in great alarm to prepared dug-outs. The aeroplanes however did not come over Karlsruhe but must have been bombing some neighbouring town: the populace were in great terror of air raids and many houses in the town were empty owing to them.
Early on the morning of April 13th Sloggett and I were warned to hold ourselves in readiness to proceed to Furstenberg. We had only 2 hours notice in which to pack up and to make all our farewells. We were the given a meal of soup and potatoes, after which we and our luggage were carefully searched and all money taken away from us. This took some time as there were fifty officers coming with us, but when it was finished we fell in in fours outside under a German officer and with an escort then marched to the station, where soon after Midday we entrained in 2nd Class carriages. In most compartments there were seven officers and one of the escort: we luckily had only four, together with the German officer in charge.