Three battalions of The Ulster Defence Regiment - 2 UDR, 3 UDR and 9 UDR - were deployed to the Newry area in support of operations connected with a protest march organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). The 100,000 strong march came one week after fourteen people had been shot and killed by the Army during protests in Londonderry; a notorious event that came to be known as 'Bloody Sunday'.
'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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