Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - I tohaina e nga mana o Niu Tireni te 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force mo te whawhai i roto i nga waahanga e toru <unk> i hangaia katoa mo Ihipa, engari ko tetahi i huri ki Scotland (ka tae atu ki reira i te Pipiri o te tau 1940) whai muri i te whakaekenga a Tiamana o France. I te Paenga-whāwhā 1941, i muri i tētahi wā whakangungu i Ihipa, ka tukuna te 2nd Division o Aotearoa o 2NZEF, e noho ana i Ihipa, ki te whai wāhi ki te parenga o Kariki
i te whakaekenga mai o ngā hōia Itari, ā, kātahi anō ka uru mai ngā hōia Tiamana ki te whakaekenga mai. I whakauruhia tenei paruru ki te taha o nga waahanga o Ingarangi me Ahitereiria - ko te roopu Commonwealth i raro i te whakahau a te Tiamana o Ingarangi a Henry Maitland Wilson e mohiotia ana ko W Force, i tautoko i te ope hoia Kariki ngoikore.