Kammala wannan jumla: Pine-Coffin ya zama kwamandan kwamandan na 3rd Battalions ya ƙare lokacin da aka kira shi zuwa Birtaniya, a lokacin da battalion ya shirya don shiga cikin Allied
hare-haren sama a kan Sicily. An nada shi kwamandan kwamandan na 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion (a baya 10th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry), wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division.