 Although British forces were ordered home shortly afterwards , Horrocks and another officer , George Hayes , remained to advise the First Siberian Army . The White Army was in retreat , and Horrocks joined them as they fell back to Vladivostok , 3 @,@ 000 miles ( 4 @,@ 800 km ) away . He was captured by the Red Army on 7 January 1919 , in the town of Krasnoyarsk , and spent 10 months as a prisoner , narrowly surviving severe typhus . The British government negotiated a prisoner release , and Horrocks left Russia on 29 October , returning home on the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Delhi . 
