 Over the course of the next two days , the battalion withdrew towards Athens , where they arrived in the early morning on 24 April . They continued on to the beach at Porto Rafti , destroying their vehicles and other equipment as they went . In the confusion of orders and counter orders , the battalion 's carrier and mortar platoons had gotten separated from the rest of the unit . By 9 : 00 pm on 24 April when the final move to the beach commenced they still had not arrived . The operation went according to plan however , and by 3 : 00 am on 25 April the transports embarked . Of the various groups that had become detached from the battalion , some were able to make their own way to the embarkation beaches , but a number of them were ultimately captured . The battalion 's casualties in Greece were 10 killed or died of wounds , six wounded , 83 captured , 11 wounded and captured . 
