Returning home

A long way out of Russian war imprisonment

 

This page is not directly in context with the Royal Bavarian 5th Infantry, but an information for succeeding generations about the return of German soldiers after World War I. from Russian war imprisonment.

 

Many brave German soldiers had an adventurous return home after several years of war imprisonment.

 

Proven by narrations of progeny and written verifications of a German soldier captured on October 2nd, 1916

 

 

07.05.1916
Marching off into war
02.10.1916
capture, Mars via Plaucamala to Kremenetz
07.10. - 10.10.1916

transportation by train from Dubno to Berditscheff in the POW Camp
13.10. - 14.10.1916 run to Kiew (Durnitza camp)
29.10. - 05.11.1916 run to Pensa
06.11. - 26.12.1916 in Pensa camp imprisonment
27.12. - 12.01.1917 run via Samara - Ufa - Tscheljabink - Omsk to Atschinsk
12.01. - 26.11.1917 in Atschinsk Camp
27.11. - 30.11.1917 run via Polowina - Irkutsk - Baykal to Berezowka
01.12. - 01.11.1918 in Berezowka Camp
01.11. - 16.11.1918 run via Tschita - Aga - Mandschuria to Nikolsk-Ussurisk
17.11. - 14.02.1919 in Nikolsk-Ussurisk Camp
15.02. - 17.06.1919 in Rstolnoje Camp
18.06. - 04.07.1920 in Nikolsk-Ussurisk Camp
04.07.1920 run to Wladiwostok at the Japan Sea
05.07. - 31.08.1920 return to Ruske Ostrow Camp
01.09.1920 to Vladivostok for embarkment and final passage home
02.09. - 15.09.1920

The "Heffron" an American vessel of 15.900 GRT and 1200 passengers hoist anchor, passed south of Kyushu island, Japan and cross the northern Pacific.

USS Heffron in WladiwostokWladiwostok 1920 USS Heffron at Vladivostok                                                      Vladivostok habor 1920

          

Honolulu 1920

Honolulu, Hawai'i about 1920
16.09.1920 enter Honolulu harbor, O'ahu (Republic of Hawai'i)
until 22.09.1920 layover in Honolulu - a dream after exertion of Siberian POW camps
23.09.1920 farewell from O'ahu, from Honolulu
23.09. - 12.10.1920 travel with "USS Heffron" to Panama (03.10.1920 four years as POW)
12.10. - 18.10.1920 passage of Panama Canal - from Panama crossing the isthmus to Colón
19.10. - 04.11.1920 trough the Caribbean Sea (St. Thomas) and crossing the Atlantic to Gibraltar
05.11. - 11.11.1920 departure from Gibraltar, passing Sicily (08.11.) to Trieste
12.11. - 20.11.1920 by rail road home
finally at home

 


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