The 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment mobilized 73 soldiers to reinforce the 1 R IRISH Battlegroup on Operation HERRICK 13 in Afghanistan. Unlike in 2008, and due to the nature of tasking allocated to the Battlegroup, the Reservists on this occasion were used to reinforce Companies of 1 R IRISH rather than deploying as a formed Company.
'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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