Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te puna me te raumati o te tau 1939, i whakahaua te ope a rohe kia taarua te rahi, kia tutuki ai te riri o Tiamana Nazi. I te mutunga, i whakaarahia e te 1st Battalion tetahi waahanga taarua, te 2nd Battalion i tukuna ki te 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division. I noho tahi te 2nd Battalion me te wehenga i te United Kingdom tae noa ki te wa i tukuna ai ki tawahi, ki France, i te Pipiri 1944. I whawhai te ope taua i te Pakanga o Normandy i te Operation Epsom me te Pakanga Tuarua o te Odon, i whai ake i te Operation Bluecoat me nga pakanga i muri mai
Ka anga whakamua te hunga i uru mai i Paris ki te Rhine. I whai waahi te peihana i muri mai i te Operation Market Garden, i muri mai ka uru ki te Operation Veritable me te whiti i te Rhine i te Operation Plunder, i te mutunga ka anga whakamua ki Tiamana i te whakaekenga a te Western Allied o Tiamana. I roto i te Operation Epsom ""te 2nd Battalion, The Glasgow Highlanders ngaro 12 rangatira, me te mau tata 200 mate, te nuinga a tawhio noa te kainga wera tautohetia o Cheux. Ko te katoa o te kaha o tenei ropu tata ki te 35 nga rangatira me te 786 etahi atu rarangi; na reira ko nga "ra kotahi" i ngaro te 34% o o raatau rangatira me te tata ki te 25% o te roopu pupuhi katoa.