Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko te 2nd Battalion, KRRC, i whakahaua e Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Wilson, he wāhanga o te British Expeditionary Force (BEF) i tae ki Wīwī i te marama o Mei 1940. Ko te roopu, he waahanga no te 30th Infantry Brigade, 1st Armoured Division, a ko te rangatira a Lieutenant Colonel Euan Miller, i ngaro i te tiaki o Calais, i reira i whakaroa ai e te roopu te haere whakamua o nga Tiamana ka taea ai te nekehanga o Dunkirk ki te haere tonu. I whakahoutia te ope taua i te raumati o te tau 1940 i raro i te whakahau a Lieutenant Colonel George Erskine, ka whakawhiti ki te 22nd Armoured Brigade o te 1st Armoured Division. I uru te roopu whakahoutanga ki te Pakanga o Gazala i te Haratua 1942 me te Pakanga Tuarua o El Alamein i te Oketopa 1942 i te Campaign o Awherika ki te Raki, i uru ki te 7th Motor Brigade o te wehenga i te wa o te whakaeke whakamutunga ka whakawhiti ki te 4th Armoured Brigade i te Hanuere 1943. I raro i te rangatira o Lieutenant Colonel W. Heathcote-Amory, i mahi tonu te ope taua ki te 4th Armoured Brigade i nga taunga o Normandy i te Pipiri 1944 me te pakanga i muri mai i te raki-hauauru o Uropi
, i te mutunga ka wehe atu i te Rōpū Tuatahi e ono rā i muri i te rā o te VE. E rua nga rangatira rongonui i mahi tahi me te ope taua i tana pakanga whakamutunga o te pakanga, ko Roland Gibbs me Edwin Bramall.