Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakapuakina te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i te Ratapu, i te 3 o Hepetema 1939 ā, i karangahia atu ngā hōia e rua o te ope whenua, te tuawhā me te tuaono (he tāruatanga o te tuawhā), i te wā tonu. Ko te 2nd Battalion i eke ki France me te 9th Infantry Brigade i whakauruhia ki te 3rd Infantry Division i whakahaua e Major-General Bernard Montgomery i te Oketopa 1939. I whai ake i a raatau te 6th Battalion, he waahanga o te 138th Brigade me te 46th Infantry Division, i te Paenga-whawha o te tau 1940; i mahi tahi raua me te British Expeditionary Force (BEF) ka hoki mai i Dunkirk i muri i nga pakanga o France me Belgium. Whai muri i te hokinga ki Ingarangi, e rua nga roopu i whakapau i nga tau i te United Kingdom mo te tiaki i te kaainga e tatari ana ki te whakaekenga a Tiamana ki te United Kingdom. Ko te 2nd Battalion, i noho tonu ki te parirau me te wehenga kotahi puta noa i te pakanga, ka whakapau i nga tau e wha e whai ake nei ki te whakangungu i nga waahi rereke o te United Kingdom i mua i tana whakauru ki nga taunga o te Ra D i te Hune 1944. Ko te roopu, i whakahaua e Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Welby-Everard i uru atu ki te pakanga katoa o Normandy, i uru atu ki te Operation Charnwood, Operation Goodwood, me te toenga o te Northwest Europe Campaign
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