Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment wani rukunin Sojoji ne na yau da kullun wanda ke aiki a tsibirin Malta a matsayin wani ɓangare na 1st Malta Infantry Brigade (wanda aka sake sanya shi a matsayin 231st Infantry Brigade a watan Afrilu 1943) kuma ya shiga cikin kewaye Malta daga Yuni 1940 zuwa Nuwamba 1942. A watan Yulin 1943, bataliya, tare da Brigade na 231, sun yi yaƙi a cikin mamayewar Allied na Sicily, kuma, a takaice, a cikin mamayewar Allied na Italiya a watan Satumba. Bayan Italiya an janye brigade zuwa Sicily sannan kuma zuwa Burtaniya inda ya zama na dindindin na tsohon soja na 50 (Northumbrian) Infantry Division kuma ya horar da su a shirye-shiryen mamayewar Allied na Normandy. A ranar D, 6 ga Yuni, 1944, an yi niyyar cewa bataliya, wanda Laftanar Kanar Cosmo Nevill ya ba da umurni, ya sauka a Le Hamel, a Gold Beach, a bayan 1st Hampshires. Duk da haka, saboda mummunan yanayi na teku da kuma saurin tashin hankali, uku daga cikin kamfanonin bindigogi guda hudu sun kai fiye da mil daya zuwa gabas kafin su iya sauka a ƙasa kuma dole ne su yi tafiya zuwa wurin da aka ba su. Daga cikin kwamandoji hudu, biyu sun ji rauni kuma an kashe daya. Rundunar ta ci gaba da yin yaƙi da kyau a duk lokacin yakin Normandy da 'yanci na Arewa maso Yammacin Turai
Ka yi haƙuri. Koyaya, a cikin Disamba 1944, an rushe Rukunin na 50, saboda tsananin karancin sojoji a cikin Sojojin Burtaniya a lokacin, kuma an canza bataliya zuwa Brigade na 131 (Lorried), wani ɓangare na Rukunin Sojoji na 7, "The Desert Rats", kuma ya kasance tare da su har zuwa ƙarshen yaƙin, yana shiga cikin Operation Blackcock a watan Janairun 1945 wanda ya biyo bayan Operation Plunder inda suka haye Kogin Rhine. Rukunin ya ci gaba zuwa garin Hamburg, Jamus, a matsayin wani ɓangare na mamayewar Yammacin Allied na Jamus, yana shiga cikin Yakin Hamburg a ƙarshen Afrilu 1945.