The 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers moved from Doniford Camp, Somerset to Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster, Wiltshire and assumed the role of Demonstration Battalion for The School of Infantry on 27 February 1972.
'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)
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