Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: 5th Battalion yakagadziridzwa muna 1939 se 2nd Line duplicate ye 4th Battalion apo Territorial Army yakapetwa kaviri muhukuru. Pakutanga, 5th Buffs yakapiwa ku37th Infantry Brigade, chikamu che12th (Eastern) Infantry Division, yaive 2nd Line duplicate ye44th (Home Counties) Division. Zvisinei, musi wa 26 Gumiguru 1939, yakaendeswa ku36th Infantry Brigade yeDivision mukutsinhana ne2 / 6th East Surreys. 5th Buffs, pamwe chete ne6th uye 7th Royal West Kents, vakaramba vari mu36th Brigade kwehondo yose. Kufanana ne2nd ne4th Battalions, yakashanda neBEF muFrance muna 1940 uye yakarwa muhondo yeFrance uye yakabviswa kuDunkirk. Chikamu chechi12 chakatambura kurasikirwa kukuru kunonyanya kukonzerwa nekuti vazhinji vevarume vaive nekudzidziswa kushoma uye chikamu chaive chisina zvombo zvepfuti kana zvikwata zvekutsigira. Mushure mokudzokera kuEngland, boka racho rakaparadzwa muna July 1940, pamusana pokurasikirwa kwaro. Muna 1942, 36th Brigade yakapiwa ku78th Division ichangobva kusimudzwa uye yakatora chikamu muOperation Torch, maAllied landings muNorth Africa, ichiteverwa nemushandirapamwe muTunisia, uko 78th Division, sechikamu cheBritish First Army, yakazvitsaura panguva yakakosha kutora Longstop Hill. Boka racho rakabva rakarwa mu
Mushandirapamwe weSicily, sechikamu cheBritish Eighth Army. Va5th Buffs navamwe vose ve78th Division vakabva vatora rutivi mukurwisana muItaly uye vakashanda ikoko kusvikira muna 1945.