"I got a letter from one man and he said, I just thought he'd write and let me know, he'd got, they'd got - not wounded - they got captured and there was - our men were there and these men were there. And they were coming in. And the head colonel he said, well know I'm going to surrender, because he said, that's my work to surrender. I've got to save these men's lives. We could go there, he said, and we could shoot and all killed. But he said, I'm here to stop you doing that. But he said, I'm going to turn my back away for a while, I've just got to go over there for a minute or two he said. If anybody feels they can get away and don't want to go prisoner - that's what I was after - he said, they can go. And there was only three or four left when he turned back. Because they'd all ducked for their lives. And hid in places."

ANNIE STURZAKER