Rukunin ya tashi a ranar 6 ga Disamba a cikin Convoy WS14 don shiga Sojojin Gabas ta Tsakiya, amma a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 1942, yayin da yake cikin teku, an karkatar da shi zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya bayan mamayewar Japan na Malaya
Ka yi haƙuri. Jirgin ya isa Singapore a ranar 13 ga Janairu, amma yawancin kayan aikin rundunar sun ci gaba zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya, kuma dole ne a sake sake kayan aiki daga ajiyar kayayyaki a Singapore. An kai hari kan sansanonin jiragen sama a Singapore kuma RAF ta sake tura jiragen sama zuwa Dutch East Indies: An sake juyar da rukunin AA a cikin WS14, wanda ya tashi a ranar 30 ga Janairu kuma ya isa Batavia a Java a ranar 3/4 ga Fabrairu.