Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A tsakiyar watan Fabrairun 1943, an tura rukunin zuwa Siriya, inda ya kasance a can har tsawon watanni huɗu masu zuwa, kuma daga baya zuwa Masar, inda ya zo ƙarƙashin umarnin Sojojin Birtaniya XIII, wanda Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey ya ba da umarni (wanda a baya ya ba da umarnin Brigade na 13 a Faransa da Belgium a 1940), wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na Sojojin Birtaniya na takwas, a ƙarƙashin Janar Sir Bernard Montgomery. Rukunin, wanda ya sake aiki tare da Rukunin na 50, ya fara horo a cikin ayyukan amphibious a shirye-shiryen Operation Husky
, mamayewar Allied na Sicily.