Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: E zigara 1st Battalion, nke na-eje ozi na 25th Infantry Brigade na 50th Division, na France na mbido 1940 iji sonyere ndị fọdụrụ na British Expeditionary Force. Ndị agha ahụ lụrụ ọgụ n'Agha Dunkirk ma a manyere ha ịpụ. Mgbe Dunkirk gasịrị, battalion ahụ ghọrọ akụkụ nke 210th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), nke e mechara degharịa ya na 38th (Irish) Brigade. E kenyere ndị agha ahụ na nke isii nke ndị agha na-agba ọsọ ma soro ha rụọ ọrụ n'oge mmalite nke Tunisia Campaign ruo na February 2, 1943, mgbe a gbanwere ya na 1st Guards Brigade nke 78th "Battleaxe" Division. Ndị agha ahụ ga-anọgide na ngalaba ahụ ruo oge fọdụrụ n'agha ahụ, na-eje ozi na
na-alụ ọgụ na Sicily, ebe ndị Irish Brigade lụrụ ọgụ, na nnukwu ihe ịga nke ọma, na Agha nke Centuripe n'August 1943. Ihe ịga nke ọma e nwere na Sicily sochiri ọdịda ụgbọ mmiri ndị ahụ n'ala ndị dị n'Itali. N'oge ọrụ ya n'Itali, ndị agha ahụ sonyere n'ọtụtụ osimiri na agha na ikekwe nke a kacha mara amara bụ Agha Monte Cassino, otu n'ime agha kachasị sie ike nke mkpọsa ahụ dum ma hụ agha ikpeazụ ha na Operation Grapeshot.