On 20 September 1761, Lord William Blakeney 'the soldier of the soldiers' died at the age of 89. He had been Colonel of 'His Majesty's Enniskillen Regiment of Foot' for over 24 years. He was buried in Westminster Abbey and was succeeded as Colonel of the Regiment by Lieutenant General Hugh Warburton from the 45th Reiment.
'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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