Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An tura Bataliya ta 2, a karkashin jagorancin Laftanan Kanar Donald Butterworth, zuwa Faransa jim kadan bayan barkewar yaki a watan Satumbar 1939 a matsayin wani bangare na Brigade na 2 (tare da 1st Loyal Regiment da 1st Gordon Highlanders), 1st Infantry Division kuma wani bangare ne na British Expeditionary Force (BEF), kuma ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Faransa da Belgium kafin daga ƙarshe a kwashe shi daga Dunkirk a ranar 1 ga Yuni 1940. Bayan haka, 2nd Battalion ya shafe shekaru yana kare gida a Burtaniya yana shirya don yiwuwar mamayewar Jamus na Ingila wanda bai taɓa zuwa ba. Bataliya ta kasance a Burtaniya har zuwa 1943 lokacin da, har yanzu a matsayin wani ɓangare na 1st Infantry Division, ya tashi zuwa Arewacin Afirka kuma ya shiga cikin yaƙin neman zaɓe a Tunisia, Sojojin Farko na Burtaniya. Bataliya ba ta shiga cikin mamayewar Sicily ko mamayewar farko na Italiya ba amma tana ɗaya daga cikin manyan raka'a a cikin saukar Anzio a watan Janairun 1944, a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Sojojin Amurka na Biyar, inda suka sha wahala sosai. A ranar 7 ga Fabrairu, bataliya ta yi asarar rayuka 323 da ke ƙoƙarin kama Buonriposo Ridge wanda suka kama amma an tilasta su mika wuya bayan sun kashe bindigoginsu. A watan Mayu, bayan
Operation Diadem, bataliya ta sha kashi takwas na maye gurbin. Yanzu yana fada a matsayin wani ɓangare na Rundunar Soji ta 8 na Birtaniya, 2nd Battalion ya ci gaba da yin aiki a Italiya, yana fada a kusa da Gothic Line, har zuwa Janairu 1945 lokacin da aka tura bataliya da sauran 1st Infantry Division zuwa Palestine.