The 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers,commanded by Lieutenant Colonel W S D Burke R IRISH, moved from Dover to Stornoway Barracks, Lemgo, Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany during August 1988. The Battalion relieved the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Wales as an Infantry Mechanised Battalion in 20 Armoured Brigade (Bde HQ in nearby Detmold).
'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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