Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A gbanwere 5th Battalion na 1939 dị ka 2nd Line duplicate nke 4th Battalion mgbe Agha Territorial jiri okpukpu abụọ. Na mbido, e kenyere 5th Buffs na 37th Infantry Brigade, akụkụ nke 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division, nke bụ 2nd Line duplicate nke 44th (Home Counties) Division. Agbanyeghị, na 26 Ọktọba 1939, ebufere ya na 36th Infantry Brigade nke Ngalaba ahụ na mgbanwe maka 2/6th East Surreys. 5th Buffs, tinyere 6th na 7th Royal West Kents, nọgidere na 36th Brigade maka oge fọdụrụ agha ahụ. Dị ka 2nd na 4th Battalions, ọ jere ozi na BEF na France na 1940 ma lụọ ọgụ na Agha nke France ma wepụ ya na Dunkirk. Ngalaba nke iri na abụọ tara ahụhụ nke ukwuu n'ihi na ọtụtụ n'ime ndị ikom ahụ enwechaghị ọzụzụ na ngalaba ahụ enweghị egbe egbe ma ọ bụ ndị enyemaka. Mgbe ọ laghachiri England, e mebiri ngalaba ahụ na July 1940, n'ihi ọnwụ ndị ọ tara. N'afọ 1942, e kenyere Brigade nke 36 na Ngalaba nke 78 nke e bulitere ọhụrụ ma sonye na Operation Torch, ndị Allied landings na North Africa, sochiri mkpọsa na Tunisia, ebe Ngalaba nke 78, dịka akụkụ nke British First Army, pụtara ìhè n'oge njide dị oke mkpa nke Longstop Hill. Ngalaba ahụ lụrụ ọgụ na
Mgbasa Ozi Sicily, dịka akụkụ nke ndị agha nke asatọ nke Britain. 5th Buffs na ndị fọdụrụ na 78th Division wee sonye na ọgụ na Italy ma jee ozi ebe ahụ ruo na 1945 Offensive.