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Battle Honour ST LUCIA 1778,1796	Battle Honour ST QUENTIN - German Spring Offensive 1918.	Battle Honour VITTORIA	Battle Honour, 'SEVASTOPOL'	Battle Honours
Battle of Britain begins	Battle of Chaegunghyon (Happy Valley)	Battle of Colenso, South Africa.	Battle of Falkirk Muir (Moor), King's Colour Saved.	Battle of Gully Ravine, Gallipoli
Battle of Imjin, Korea, 1 RUR attacked.	Battle of Newtownbutler	Battle of Stormberg	Battle of the Barn, Liopetri, Cyprus.	Battle of the Somme - A Poem
Battle of The Somme, 1916.	Beating Retreat by the Irish Regiments.	Beneath the earth of the Somme Battlefields	Bergen-Belsen Liberation	BERMUDA - A State of Emergency
Billy 'Botha'.	Boers declare war on the British.	Bovril bottle oil lamp	Brian Boru, The Royal Irish Regiment's Mascot	Brigadier Nelson Russell

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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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