Complex sentence: Just prior to the Second World War, Lympne was requisitoned by the Fleet Air Arm as HMS "Buzzard", being renamed HMS "Daedalus II" three months later but was transferred to the Royal Air Force in May 1940.
Split into simpler sentences: Just prior to the Second World War Lympne was requisitioned by the Fleet Air Arm. It was named HMS "Buzzard" and renamed HMS "Daedalus II" three months later, before being transferred to the Royal Air Force in May 1940.