Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ko te 5th Brigade tetahi waahanga o te 2nd Infantry Division ka tukuna ki Parani i te 1939 i muri tata mai o te pakarutanga o te pakanga, i uru ai ki te British Expeditionary Force. I mahi ia i te rohe Franco-Belgian tae noa ki Mei 1940, i te wa i wehea ai ki Dunkirk i muri i te whawhai i nga pakanga poto engari kino o France me Belgium i tata ai te ope taua Tiamana ki te tapahi i te BEF katoa mai i te ope taua French. I noho tonu te piringa ki Ingarangi hei tiaki i te kaainga tae noa ki te 10 o Aperira 1942, i tukuna atu ai ki Inia ki te whawhai ki te Imperial Japanese Army whai muri i te maha o nga aitua i pa ki nga hoia o Ingarangi me Inia i tu ki reira. I mahi te 5th Brigade me te 2nd Infantry Division i te Campaign Burma i raro i te Tiamana Slim's British Fourteenth Army me te whawhai i te Pakanga o Kohima
, i taea ai te huri i te rere o te pakanga i te Rawhiti ki te Rawhiti.