Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - E debere brigade na Sierra Leone site na Jenụwarị ruo June 1941. Mgbe ahụ, ọ gara Ijipt, bịarutere na July, ebe ọ bịara n'okpuru Middle East Forces, na-etinye obere oge n'okpuru iwu nke 4th Indian Infantry Division, XIII Corps, na British Eighth Army, ebe ọtụtụ n'ime ndị agha ya na-agbapụ. Na Nọvemba 1941, Brigade HQ na 1/4th Essex gara ọzọ na Saịprọs, ebe esonyere ya na battalion abụọ nke ndị agha India ma kenye ya na 5th Indian Division. Na 26 Nọvemba 1941 e zigara ndị agha ahụ na ndị agha India dị ka 161st Indian Infantry Brigade. Dika ndi agha ndi India, o sonyere na Western Desert na Burma mkpọsa, na-egwu nnukwu akụkụ na-alụ ọgụ Imperial Japanese Army na Siege nke Kohima.
n'etiti afọ 1944.