Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Morshead daga baya ya jagoranci rundunar bindigogi ta 33 ta hanyar yakin Messines a watan Yunin 1917, da kuma mummunan yakin Passchendaele a watan Oktoba, inda 3rd Division ya sha wahala sosai. A watan Maris na shekarar 1918, an tura rukunin na 3 zuwa yankin Somme don taimakawa wajen dakatar da hare-haren Spring na Jamus.
Ka yi haƙuri. An raba Brigade na 9 na Infantry, wanda Battalion na 33 na Infantry ya kasance wani ɓangare, daga Rukunin na 3 kuma aka aika zuwa Villers-Bretonneux. A ranar 30 ga Maris, kwamandan Brigade na 9 na Sojoji, Birgediya Janar Charles Rosenthal, ya umarci Morshead ya dawo da gaba a kusa da Aubercourt. Tare da taimakon Birtaniya 12th Lancers, rundunar ta iya mayar da layin, ko da yake ba ta iya ci gaba ba kamar yadda Rosenthal ya yi fata. An sauƙaƙe Battalion na 33 na Infantry, kuma ya janye zuwa Villers-Bretonneux don hutawa. Duk da haka, a ranar 4 ga Afrilu, Morshead ya yi mamakin ganin cewa an sake karya layin kuma Villers-Bretonneux ya yi barazana. A cikin Yaƙin farko na Villers-Bretonneux, rundunar ta shiga cikin dakatar da ci gaba, kuma ta hana Jamusawa kama garin. A ranar 18 ga Afrilu, rundunar bindigogi ta 33 har yanzu tana cikin garin lokacin da aka yi masa mummunan harbi da guba mai guba. Mutane da yawa, ciki har da Morshead, sun zama masu fama da iskar gas. Bai koma rukunin sa ba har zuwa watan Yuni.