Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Battalion nke abụọ, KRRC, nke Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Wilson nyere iwu, bụ akụkụ nke British Expeditionary Force (BEF) nke rutere na France na May 1940. Ndị agha ahụ, nke bụ akụkụ nke 30th Infantry Brigade, 1st Armored Division, nke Lieutenant Colonel Euan Miller na-achịkwa ugbu a, furu efu na ịgbachitere Calais, ebe ndị agha ahụ belatara ọganihu ndị Germany ma mee ka mwepụ Dunkirk gaa n'ihu. A gbanwere ndị agha ahụ n'oge ọkọchị nke 1940 n'okpuru iwu nke Lieutenant Colonel George Erskine ma bufee ya na 22nd Armored Brigade nke 1st Armored Division. Battalion ahụ e mere ka ọ dị ọhụrụ sonyere na Agha nke Gazala na Mee 1942 na Agha nke Abụọ nke El Alamein na Ọktọba 1942 n'oge Mgbasa Ozi North Africa, na-abụ akụkụ nke 7th Motor Brigade nke Ngalaba ahụ n'oge ọgụ nke ikpeazụ ma nyefee ya na 4th Armored Brigade na Jenụwarị 1943. Ugbu a n'okpuru Lieutenant Colonel W. Heathcote-Amory, ndị agha ahụ gara n'ihu na-eje ozi na 4th Armored Brigade na Normandy landings na June 1944 na nke na-esote
N'ikpeazụ, ha hapụrụ 1st Division ụbọchị isii mgbe ụbọchị VE gasịrị. Ndị ọchịagha abụọ a ma ama so ndị agha ahụ rụọ ọrụ n'agha ikpeazụ nke agha ahụ, Roland Gibbs na Edwin Bramall.