Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An aika da 2nd Battalion, a karkashin jagorancin Lieutenant Colonel Donald Butterworth, zuwa Faransa jim kadan bayan barkewar yaki a watan Satumbar 1939 a matsayin wani ɓangare na 2nd Infantry Brigade (tare da 1st Loyal Regiment da 1st Gordon Highlanders), 1st Infantry Division kuma ya kasance wani ɓangare na British Expeditionary Force (BEF), kuma ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Faransa da Belgium kafin a 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
, rundunar ta dauki nau'i 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.