Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - I hoki mai te 2nd Battalion ki te United Kingdom, a, i te 7 o Tihema 1941 (te ra i uru mai ai te United States ki te pakanga), i tukuna ki te 37th Independent Infantry Brigade (i whakauruhia ano ki te 7th Infantry Brigade i te ra i muri mai). I te 1 o Poutu-te-rangi 1944 i whakawhitihia te peihana ki te 56th Independent Infantry Brigade i hangaia hou, i te taha o te 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment me te 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment ka whakangungu mo te whakaekenga o Normandy. I whai mana te peihana i te mea ko ia anake te peihana Welsh i uru ki nga taunga o Normandy i te 6 o Pipiri 1944, i taunga ki Gold Beach i raro i te whakahau a te 50th (Northumbrian) Division Infantry me te whawhai i te Pakanga o Normandy, i raro i te whakahau a te 7th Armoured Division mo etahi ra i te Pipiri 1944, i mua i te hokinga ki te 50th Division. I te marama o Akuhata 1944 i raro i te whakahau a te 59th (Staffordshire) Division Infantry a ka whawhai i te Pakanga o te Falaise Gap. I te 20 o Akuhata i uru atu te piriti ki te 49th (West Riding) Division Infantry, hei whakakapi i te 70th Brigade i whakakorehia. I te wehenga, i whawhai te peihana i roto i nga mahi ki te horoi i te takutai Channel, i reira i hopukia ai e ratou a Le Havre i te Mahi Astonia. Whai muri i te whaainga o te roopu i okioki poto, a, i te 22 o Hepetema, ka neke ki te hono atu ki te toenga o te 21 o nga ope taua e whawhai ana i Belgium. I te Oketopa, i muri tata iho i te hinganga o te Operation Market Garden
, i tukuna te wehenga ki te "Motu", i te mea i mohiotia te rohe whenua i waenga o Arnhem me Nijmegen, i reira i noho ai ia i te takurua o te raki o 1944/45. Ko te mahi nui whakamutunga mo te roopu i te Paenga-whawha 1945, i te wa, me te toenga o te wehenga, i whawhai ratou i te Pakanga Tuarua o Arnhem. I mutu te pakanga o te roopu i Tiamana, ka noho ki reira, hei waahanga o nga ope mahi, tae noa ki te 1948 ka hoki mai ki te kaainga. I te pakanga i te raki-hauauru o Uropi, neke atu i te 100% o nga patunga i mate i te puranga.