Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Har zuwa 27 ga Agusta 1941, an tura rukunin a cikin Burtaniya don ayyukan hana mamayewa, don tsammanin mamayewar Jamusawa, a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Manjo-Janar Willoughby Norrie, wanda ya karɓi umarni a ranar 24 ga Agusta 1940. Daga nan sai ya tashi zuwa Masar a karkashin jagorancin Manjo-Janar Herbert Lumsden kuma ya isa ranar 13 ga Nuwamba, 1941. Bayan da Manjo-Janar Lumsden ya ji rauni, Manjo-Janar Frank Messervy ya dauki umurnin a watan Janairun 1942, yana riƙe da umurnin har sai Manjo-Janar Lumsden ya dawo a watan Maris. Rukunin Sojoji na 1 ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa na Yakin Arewacin Afirka da "Generalfeldmarschall" Erwin Rommel, "Desert Fox", gami da Gazala, Mersa Matruh, El Alamein na Farko, El Alamein na Biyu, Tebaga Gap, Layin Mareth, Akarit
, El Kourzia da kuma Tunis. A watan Agustan 1942, an nada Manjo Janar Raymond Briggs a matsayin kwamandan kuma a watan Yulin 1943 Manjo Janar Alexander Galloway ya gaje shi.