There were calls for them to be kept segregated from the local population but, once here, the troops found a very different country, with different attitudes, to the one they were used to.
Roedd galwadau iddynt gael eu cadw oddi wrth y boblogaeth leol ond, wedi iddynt gyrraedd, gwelodd y milwyr eu bod mewn gwlad wahanol iawn, gydag agweddau gwahanol, i'r un yr oeddent wedi arfer â hi.