In September 1936, Arab violence flared in Palestine and caused a threat to peace. The Regiment embarked for Haifa at short notice on 12 September and, landing in Palestine twelve days later, moved to the Ramallah-Nablus area. Though observation posts and convoys were frequently fired upon, the Regiment incurred no casualties and, by the end of October, the Royal Irish Fusilier's area was quiet again.
'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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