At the end of November 1830, the 27th Inniskilling Regiment, having completed seven years of service in the West Indies, embarked at Barbados in three ships; their destination was Cork. The years in the tropics had taken many lives. The graveyards in the various Colonies where the Regiment had been quartered - Demerara, Berbice, St Vincent, Grenada and Barbados - contained the remains of 302 Inniskillings.
'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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