Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaarahia te 50th (Holding) Battalion i te mutunga o Mei 1940, me te mahi 'ki te pupuri' i nga tangata kaore he kaainga, kaore i te pai, e tatari ana ki nga whakahau kia hoki mai i tawahi. I te Oketopa 1940, i whakaingoatia ano ko te 10th Battalion, a, i te 8 o Noema, i whakawhiwhia ki te 221st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), i te taha o te 11th Gloucestershire Regiment me te 7th King's Shropshire Light Infantry, ko enei e rua hoki nga roopu pupuri o mua. I whakawhitihia te peihana ki te Royal Artillery ka hurihia, i te Hui-tanguru 1942, ki te 119th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, ka mahi i roto i te Home Forces tae noa ki te Mahuru 1942, i te wa i uru ai ki te 79th Armoured Division. Heoi anō, i whakawhitihia ki te 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division i te marama o Mei 1943 ka noho ki te wehenga mo te toenga o te pakanga, e mahi ana i roto i te Pakanga o Normandy i te
Te Pakanga mō Caen, Operation Market Garden me Operation Plunder.