the engineers were transferred to salonika and volos and, when the germans reached the city, successfully demolished installations of use to the enemy, including oil refineries, engineering works, gas works, port facilities and fortifications at volos. outside athens, a new airfield and its equipment was destroyed. some members of the re detachment were lost, as casualties or captured, before the bulk were evacuated to crete, where others were captured or killed when the germans invaded. one captured officer (dennis alabaster) escaped while being transported through yugoslavia and joined the chetniks; he was subsequently killed there.