Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te 6th Battalion, i hangaia i te 31 o Hurae 1939 hei taarua o te 5th Battalion, i mahi hei waahanga o te 199th Infantry Brigade, i te timatanga o te 66th Infantry Division, i te taha o te 7th Manchesters me te 2/8th Battalion o te Lancashire Fusiliers. I te 23 o Hune 1940, i whakakorehia te wehenga 66th me te 199th Brigade i tukuna ki te 55th (West Lancashire) Division Infantry. I te 5 o Mei 1942, i whakaingoatia te ope taua hei 1st Battalion, hei whakakapi i te ope taua taketake, i ngaro i Singapore i te Hui-tanguru. I te Oketopa 1943, i whakawhitihia te 1st Battalion hou ki te 53rd (Welsh) Division Infantry, i reira i noho ai mo te toenga o te pakanga. I te 27 o Pipiri 1944, ka tae te 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment ki Parani, 21 nga ra i muri i te tiimata o te whakaekenga tuatahi i te 6 o Pipiri, D-Day. Ki te toenga o te 53rd Division, i kite te ope taua i nga pakanga nanakia i te Pakanga o Normandy me te whai waahi ki nga tini pakanga i te rohe huri noa i Caen, te waahi o nga pakanga nanakia, i hopukina e nga hoia o Ingarangi me Kanata i te 9 o Hurae, ana ka whawhai i te Pakanga o Falaise. Ko te ope taua
I ahu whakamua ia puta noa i te Raki o Parani, tae atu ki Antwerp i Belgium i te timatanga o Hepetema. Ko te 1st Manchesters, me te toenga o te 53rd (Welsh) Division, i neke ki Turnhout, i mua i te neke atu i muri mai i taua marama ki Netherlands, i reira te 1st me te 7th Manchesters i kite i te mahi nui, me te 7th, inaianei hei waahanga o te 52nd (Lowland) Division Infantry, e whawhai ana i te Pakanga o te Scheldt i raro i te mana o te First Canadian Army. I muri i te tomokanga o te 1st Manchesters ki te rohe o Tiamana i mua i nga parekura a te Wehrmacht, ka whiti i te Rhine me te 53rd Division i te mutunga o Poutu-te-rangi. Ko te 7 o nga Manchester me te 52 o nga Wahanga i kite i tana whawhai whakamutunga i Bremen, i te wa i riro ai taua taone i te 26 o Aperira. I mutu te pakanga a te 1st Battalion i Hamburg i te wa i tukua ai taua taone i te 3 o Mei.