Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An tura Bataliya ta 1, wacce a asali take aiki tare da Brigade na 25 na Infantry a cikin Rukunin na 50, zuwa Faransa a farkon 1940 don shiga ragowar Sojojin Turawa na Burtaniya. Batun ya yi yaƙi a yakin Dunkirk kuma an tilasta masa ƙaura. Bayan Dunkirk, bataliya ta zama wani ɓangare na 210th Independent Infantry Brigade (Gida), wanda daga baya aka canza shi zuwa 38th (Irish) Brigade. Da farko an haɗa brigade ɗin da Rukunin Sojoji na 6 kuma ya yi aiki tare da su yayin fara Kamfen na Tunisiya har zuwa 2 ga Fabrairun 1943, lokacin da aka musanya shi da Brigade na 1 na Rundunar "Battleaxe" ta 78. Rundunar za ta kasance tare da rabuwa don sauran yakin, ta yi aiki a cikin yakin a Sicily
, inda Brigade na Irish ya yi yaƙi, tare da babban nasara, a yakin Centuripe a watan Agusta 1943. Nasarar da aka samu a Sicily ya biyo bayan saukowa a cikin Italiya. A lokacin da yake aiki a Italiya, rundunar ta shiga cikin koguna da yawa da kuma fadace-fadace tare da watakila mafi shahararren shine yakin Monte Cassino, daya daga cikin fadace-fadacen da aka yi a cikin yakin basasa kuma ya ga yakin karshe a Operation Grapeshot.