Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rundunar ta 2nd, KRRC, wanda Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Wilson ya umurce shi, ya kasance wani ɓangare na Rundunar Sojan Birtaniya (BEF) wanda ya sauka a Faransa a watan Mayu 1940. Rundunar, wacce ta kasance wani bangare na 30th Infantry Brigade, 1st Armored Division, kuma a yanzu Lieutenant Colonel Euan Miller ya ba da umurni, an rasa shi a cikin tsaron Calais, inda brigade ya jinkirta ci gaban Jamus kuma ya ba da damar kwashe Dunkirk don ci gaba. An sake gyara rundunar a lokacin rani na 1940 a karkashin jagorancin Lieutenant Colonel George Erskine kuma an canja shi zuwa 22nd Armored Brigade na 1st Armored Division. Batun da aka sake fasalin ya shiga cikin Yaƙin Gazala a watan Mayu na 1942 da Yaƙin El Alamein na biyu a watan Oktoba na 1942 yayin Yaƙin Arewacin Afirka, wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na Brigade na 7 na Division a lokacin aikin na ƙarshe kuma aka canza shi zuwa Brigade na 4 a watan Janairun 1943. Yanzu a karkashin Lieutenant Colonel W. Heathcote-Amory, bataliya ta ci gaba da aiki tare da 4th Armored Brigade a Normandy saukowa a watan Yuni 1944 da kuma yakin da ya biyo baya a Arewa maso Yammacin Turai
, a karshe barin 1st Division kwanaki shida bayan VE Day. Jami'ai biyu masu daraja sun yi aiki tare da rundunar a yakin karshe na yakin, Roland Gibbs da Edwin Bramall.