Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mara ọkwa Agha Secondwa nke Abụọ na Sọnde, 3 Septemba 1939 na battalion abụọ nke Territorial Army, nke anọ na nke isii (duplicate nke anọ), ka a kpọrọ ozugbo. Battalion nke abụọ gawara France na 9th Infantry Brigade nke agbakwunyere na 3rd Infantry Division nke Major-General Bernard Montgomery nyere iwu na Ọktọba 1939. Ndị ọzọ sochiri ha bụ ndị nke 6 Battalion, akụkụ nke 138th Brigade na 46th Infantry Division, na Eprel 1940; ha abụọ jere ozi na British Expeditionary Force (BEF) ma jisie ike laghachi na Dunkirk mgbe agha nke France na Belgium. Mgbe ha laghachiri England, ndị agha abụọ ahụ nọrọ ọtụtụ afọ na United Kingdom na nchekwa ụlọ na-atụ anya mwakpo ndị German nwere ike ịwakpo United Kingdom. Battalion nke abụọ, na-anọgide na otu brigade na nkewa n'oge agha ahụ, wee nọrọ afọ anọ sochirinụ na-azụ ọzụzụ n'akụkụ dị iche iche nke United Kingdom tupu ha esonye na D-Day landings na June 1944. Ogbe ndị agha ahụ, nke Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Welby-Everard nyere iwu ka ọ na-arụ ọrụ n'oge niile nke Normandy Campaign, na-ekere òkè na Operation Charnwood, Operation Goodwood, na n'oge ndị ọzọ nke
Northwest Europe Campaign ruo Victory in Europe Day na Mee 1945.