The retreat from Mons had been going on for some days and the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles, with the rest of the British Expeditionary Force, had been retreating. When the Rifles reached Crécy on 5 September, it was announced that the retreat had ended. During this fighting withdrawal, the Battalion had marched one hundred and forty miles over a period of twelve days.
'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)
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