Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O le 2/4th Battalion na faatuina i le 1939 o se 2nd Line Territorial Army battalion faaluaina o le 1st Line 4th Battalion, mulimuli ane toe faaigoaina le 1/4th Battalion. O le 1/4th ma le 2/4th battalions sa tautua i le 164th Infantry Brigade, o se vaega o le 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division. I le 1943, na siitia atu ai le 2/4th Battalion i le vaega a le British Army's airborne forces ma liliu mai e avea ma 13th Parachute Battalion o le Parachute Regiment, o se vaega o le 5th Parachute Brigade, lea o ia lava o se vaega o le fou fou 6th Airborne Division. O le 13th Parachute Battalion na vaʻaia le taua i le taimi o le Operation Tonga, o le British airborne landings i le vaveao o Iuni 6, 1944, D-Day. O le vaega na tautua o ni fitafita masani mo le umi o le Taua o Normandy seia oo ina toe faaui i tua, faatasi ai ma le vaega o totoe o le vaega, i Egelani ia Setema 1944. Na auina atu loa le Vaega Lona 6 i Peleseuma iā Tesema 1944 e tau i le taua i Ardennes, o le Taua o le Bulge. O le taimi lenā na aofia ai i latou i le osofaʻiga aupito i telē a le ʻautau i le taua atoa, lea e silia ma le 16,000 fitafita na auai ai, lea na taʻua o le
O le Tauaofiaga o le Varsity, faatasi ai ma le vaega a le US 17th Airborne Division.