[1] Wizard was initially deployed to the Home Fleet, before joining a mixed destroyer group on 6 May 1944, assigned to screen for aircraft carriers Furious and Searcher.

These duties continued until 9 June 1944, when she sustained major damage from an explosion of her own depth charges, which caused considerable compartment flooding.

After a period of sea-trials and preparation, it made passage to the Pacific, with a final resupply in Sydney, before joining the 27th Destroyer Flotilla in August.

Although arriving in theatre before the end of the war, and being listed as part of the British Pacific Fleet present in Tokyo Bay when the surrender was signed on 2 September 1945, Wizard did not receive a Battle Honour as she had not been deployed operationally during the short time she was with the flotilla.

In October 1955 "Wizard" took part in retrieving the bodies of nine crew members of a Royal Air Force Neptune aircraft that had crashed into the Atlantic off Ireland.