On the 21 September 1993, 52 soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (R IRISH) deployed to Londonderry on Operation BANNER in support of the 1st Battalion The King's Own Royal Border Regiment (KORBR). Although each deployment was for six months, 1 R IRISH would continue to support 1 KORBR until November 1994.
'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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