Item 54: Friedrich Meier diary, 18 August 1914-August 1915 - Page 111
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<p>[Page 111]</p><p>On May 18, 1918, at 9am, we were ordered to pack all our things, the camp will be dismantled, and the following morning at 9am we have to be ready for departure. Destination unknown, everybody has to take along a day's ration. The news hit us like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, because nobody had thought they would transfer us to a new camp before armistice, where we would have to start from scratch and rebuild all the many little amenities. We have to abandon hundreds of beach huts, the theatre, the engineer's school, the one year old school, etc of a value of many thousands of marks. At a short 24 hour's notice we did not manage to pack up everything, so many of the beach hut owners burned their huts down</p><p>[Note in Margin across this and the opposite page]<br />Upon our departure from Trial Bay the Australian cruiser Brisbane at anchor in the bay]</p>