With the introduction of 'Police Primacy', the 9th and 11th Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment were the first battalions of the UDR to assume responsibility for their own 'Tactical Area of Responsibility' (TAOR). These two battalions also formed the first Permanent Cadre companies to undertake the new operational commitments they had been allocated in County Antrim (9 UDR) and County Armagh (11 UDR).
'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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