Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan sake gyara ta, "Falmouth" ya koma aikinsa a Gulf. A ranar 3-4 ga Afrilu 1941, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, tsohon Firayim Ministan Iraqi, ya kaddamar da juyin mulki, ya kwace mulki a Iraki kuma ya yi barazana ga bukatun Birtaniya a Iraki, ciki har da babban sansanin jiragen sama a RAF Habbaniya. A sakamakon haka, wani ayarin da ke shirin tashi daga Karachi zuwa Malaya dauke da wata tawagar sojojin Indiya an karkatar da shi zuwa Basra a Iraki, tare da umarnin mamaye yankin Basra, don tabbatar da tushen aiki idan an buƙata. "Falmouth" ya kasance wani ɓangare na rakiyar ga tawagar, wanda ya isa Basra a ranar 18 ga Afrilu, yana taimakawa wajen jagorantar jiragen ruwa na tawagar tare da Shatt al-Arab. 'Yan Iraki ba su yi adawa da saukar jiragen ba. "Falmouth" ya bi karin jiragen zuwa Basra yayin da Birtaniya suka gina dakarun su a shirye-shiryen yakin Anglo-Iraqi. A ranar 25 ga Agusta 1941 Burtaniya da Tarayyar Soviet sun mamaye Iran, tare da "Falmouth" wanda ke da alhakin saukowa a Khorramshahr, dauke da kamfanoni biyu na 3/10th Baluch Regiment. Ta yi tsalle a lokacin da ta bar Basra, kuma jirgin ruwan Australiya ya ci gaba ba tare da "Falmouth" ba don tabbatar da cewa sojojin ruwa na Iran a Khorramshahr ba su tsoma baki ba, sun nutsar da jirgin ruwan Iran da kuma kama jiragen ruwa biyu na Iran. "Yarra" sa'an nan kuma ya jira "Falmouth" don isa kafin jiragen ruwa biyu su sauko da dakarunsu. A watan Oktoba 1941, an aika da "Falmouth" zuwa Suez, ya koma Ceylon bayan mamayewar Japan na Malaya
a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1941.