<prompt> Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: The 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment yaiva Regular Army unit yaishumira pachitsuwa cheMalta sechikamu che1st Malta Infantry Brigade yakagadziridzwa se231st Infantry Brigade muna April 1943 uye yakabatanidzwa mukukombwa kweMalta kubva muna June 1940 kusvika munaNovember 1942. Muna Chikunguru 1943 battalion, pamwe chete ne231st Brigade, vakarwa muAllied invasion yeSicily, uye, kwenguva pfupi, muAllied invasion yeItaly munaGunyana. Mushure meItaly brigade yakadzoserwa kuSicily uyezve kuUnited Kingdom kwayakava chikamu chechigarire chevakuru makumi mashanu Northumbrian Infantry Division uye vakadzidziswa navo mukugadzirira kweAllied invasion yeNormandy. PaD-Day, 6 Chikumi 1944, kwaive nechinangwa chekuti battalion, inotungamirwa naLieutenant Colonel Cosmo Nevill, inofanira kumhara paLe Hamel, paGold Beach, kumashure kwe1st Hampshires. Zvisinei, nemhaka yemamiriro ezvinhu akaipa egungwa uye kukwira kwemvura kwakanga kusingatarisirwi, mapoka matatu emapoka mana epfuti akatakurwa kwemamaira anopfuura imwe kumabvazuva vasati vasvika kumhenderekedzo yegungwa uye vaifanira kuenda kunzvimbo yavo yekusangana netsoka. Pavakuru vakuru vekambani vana, vaviri vakakuvadzwa uye mumwe akaurayiwa. Bhatani racho rakaramba richirwisa zvakanaka muHondo yeNormandy uye  <response>: kusunungurwa kweNorth-West Europe. Zvisinei, muna Zvita 1944, 50th Division yakaparadzwa, nekuda kwekushomeka kwakanyanya kwevarwi vemauto muBritish Army panguva iyoyo, uye battalion yakaendeswa ku131st Lorried Infantry Brigade, chikamu che7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats, uye yakaramba iine ivo kwehondo yese, ichitora chikamu muOperation Blackcock muna Ndira 1945 ichiteverwa neOperation Plunder kwavakayambuka Rwizi Rhine. Chikamu ichi chakapfuurira kuenda kuguta reHamburg, kuGermany, sechikamu chekupinda kweWestern Allied kuGermany, kutora chikamu muHondo yeHamburg mukupera kwaApril 1945. 