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Major Charles Sweeny MC	Major General Sir Hugh Gough visits the 87th, Mauritius.	Malaya. A short interlude after 15 years overseas.	Malayan Emergency declared	Mammoth tooth snuff box
Margaret Thatcher visits 2 R IRISH in Fermanagh	Margaret Thatcher visits 3 UDR	Matchlock Rifle	Mauritius horse race, regimental silver and Nazi theft	Medals for 2 RUR.
Medical Officer uses jackknife to amputate a hand.	Militia Regiments raised in Ireland	Mine and counter-mine operations, Gallipoli.	Model of a Maltese Cannon	Montgomery to 3rd (Iron) Division
Move to Dunkirk's Beaches	Murder on the Border	Musket ball maker	Napoleon and the Egyptian Sphinx	Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to St Helena.
Napoleon enters Paris, 'One Hundred Days' begins.	Napoleon escapes from Elba and returns to France	Napoleon surrenders to Royal Navy	Night (graffiti) patrol, Isernia	North Down Militia

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'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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