Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment i te tuatahi i mahi i roto i te 31st Independent Infantry Brigade tae noa ki te 1941 i te wa i hurihia ai ki te tūranga o nga kaieke rererangi, e mahi ana hei waahanga o te 1st Airlanding Brigade i te 1st Airborne Division. I runga i tērā, ka tau mai rātau ki
I Sicily i te 1943, i reira, me te toenga o te parirau, i heke iho ki nga roopu e rua, i mate kino i te wa o te Operation Ladbroke. Na te nui o nga mate i te pakanga o Ladbroke, kaore te piriti i uru ki te whakaekenga o Itari, a, i whakahokia ki Ingarangi ki te whakarite mo te whakaekenga o France. I uru ratou ki te Operation Market Garden, a he waahanga nui i te Pakanga o Arnhem i te marama o Hepetema 1944.