Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 4th Battalion ya kasance a Arewacin Ireland a cikin Brigade na 160 na Infantry da aka haɗa da 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division. A watan Yunin 1944 an umurci bataliya, a karkashin Laftanar Kanar Charles Coleman, bayan shekaru da yawa na horo, zuwa Faransa don shiga rundunar sojojin Burtaniya ta biyu a yakin Normandy. Tun daga farkon yakin da aka yi, rundunar ta 4 ta shiga cikin mummunan fada a lokacin yakin Caen.
, da kuma kusa da Falaise Aljihu, da Battle na Bulge da Battle na Reichwald inda shi ya ci gaba da sosai nauyi asarar da kuma hannu wasu daga cikin mafi tsananin fama a Arewa maso Yammacin Turai yaƙin neman zaɓe ga Birtaniya sojoji kamar yadda suka kasance a kan m Jamus paratroopers.