Ko te 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment he roopu ope taua i mahi i te moutere o Malta hei waahanga o te 1st Malta Infantry Brigade (i whakaingoatia hei 231st Infantry Brigade i te Paenga-whāwhā 1943) ka uru ki te whakapae o Malta mai i te Pipiri 1940 tae noa ki Noema 1942. I te Hōngongoi 1943, i whawhai te patereona, me te 231st Brigade, i roto i te whakaekenga a Allied o Sicily, a, i te wa poto, i te whakaekenga a Allied o Itari i te marama o Hepetema. Whai muri i Itari ka nekehia te piriti ki Sicily ka haere ki te United Kingdom i reira ka noho tonu hei waahanga o te hoia 50th (Northumbrian) Division Infantry ka whakangungu me ratou hei whakarite mo te whakaekenga a Allied o Normandy. I te D-Day, 6 Pipiri 1944, i whakaarohia ko te peihana, i whakahaua e Lieutenant Colonel Cosmo Nevill, me eke ki Le Hamel, i Gold Beach, i muri o te 1st Hampshires. Heoi, na nga ahuatanga kino o te moana me te piki o te ngaru, e toru o nga kamupene pupuhi e wha i kawea atu ki te rawhiti neke atu i te maero i mua i to raatau taenga mai ki te whenua me te hikoi ki te waahi huihuinga i whakaritea. I roto i nga rangatira kamupene e wha, e rua i whara, kotahi i mate. I whawhai tonu te ope taua i roto i te Pakanga o Normandy me te
te whakaoranga o te raki-uru o Uropi. Heoi, i te marama o Tihema 1944, i whakakorehia te wehenga 50, na te iti o nga hoia hiko i te ope taua o Ingarangi i taua wa, ka tukuna te peihana ki te 131st (Lorried) Infantry Brigade, he waahanga o te 7th Armoured Division, "The Desert Rats", ka noho ki a raatau mo te toenga o te pakanga, i uru ki te Operation Blackcock i te Hanuere 1945 whai muri i te Operation Plunder i whakawhiti ai ratou i te awa o Rhine. I anga whakamua te wehenga ki tana waahi o te taone nui o Hamburg, Tiamana, hei waahanga o te whakaekenga a nga Tauiwi o te Hauauru o Tiamana, i uru ki te Pakanga o Hamburg i te mutunga o Paenga-whawha 1945.