Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tīmata te Pakanga Tuarua i te pakanga i Jamaica, me te kamupene i tukuna ki te Bermuda Garrison. I te mutunga ka uru atu te poari ki te 185th Infantry Brigade, kei roto ko te 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment me te 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. I whakaritea te piritihana ki te 79th Armoured Division, engari i tukuna ki te 3rd British Infantry Division i te Paenga-whawha 1943, i te wa e whakarite ana te wehenga ki
ka whakaekea a Sicily, tae noa ki te whakakapinga e te 1st Canadian Infantry Division. I uru te ope taua ki nga taunga o te Ra D o Operation Overlord, i kore ai ratou ki te hopu i te whaainga D-Day o Caen na te aroaro o te 21st Panzer Division. I whawhai te 2nd Battalion i te pakanga o Normandy, Operation Market Garden me te toenga o te North West Europe Campaign me te British Army Tuarua. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1945, i whakawhiwhia a Sergeant James Stokes, he tangata Scotland, o te 2 o nga Battalion ki te Victoria Cross.