Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Rukunin ya isa Yuli 1942, kuma an fara shi ne a Poona kafin ya kafa kansa a Ahmednagar. A cikin Asiya, bayan shigar Daular Japan cikin yaƙin a watan Disamba na 1941 da kuma kammala kamfen ɗin Malayan da Yaƙin Singapore, yakin Burma shine babban filin wasan kwaikwayo inda sojojin Burtaniya suka yi yaƙi da na Japan. Saboda batutuwan da suka shafi kayan aiki a wancan lokacin, ba za a iya amfani da rukunin a Burma ba. Maimakon haka, sashin ya zama wani ɓangare na tsare-tsaren Birtaniya a Asiya. Bayan Yaƙin El Alamein na Farko, a watan Yulin 1942 a Yammacin Hamada, an ba da rukunin a matsayin ƙarfafawa don tabbatar da cewa sojojin Axis ba su shiga Gabas ta Tsakiya ba, amma babu wani motsi da ya faru sakamakon nasarar Yaƙin El Alamein na Biyu. A watan Nuwamba na shekarar 1942, an ware Brigade na 6 na Infantry Brigade kuma an sanya shi ga wasu rukunin sojojin Indiya na Burtaniya, kuma sun yi yaƙi a cikin
Yaƙin Arakan a Burma. Ya koma sashen a watan Yunin 1943.