Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Na 10 Eprel 1940, ọnwa asaa mgbe ntiwapụ nke Agha Secondwa nke Abụọ gasịrị, a kwalitere MacMillan ka ọ bụrụ onye na-arụ ọrụ lieutenant-colonel ma họpụta ya dị ka GSO1 na HQ 55th (West Lancashire) Motor Division, usoro izizi nke Territorial Army (TA). Onyeisi ndị agha ahụ bụ Major-General Vivian Majendie, bụ onye gbara afọ iri na otu MacMillan, ma na-eje ozi na Northern Command (n'oge na-adịghị anya ọ gafere na Eastern Command). Ngalaba ahụ bụ otu ndị agha na-agba ọsọ nke mejupụtara nanị abụọ, kama atọ, brigades, ma bụrụ otu n'ime ọtụtụ ndị na-ahụ maka nchekwa oke osimiri na maka itinye aka na mwakpo ọ bụla nke ndị iro nwere ike ime ma ọ bụrụ na mwakpo ndị German. Na ngwụcha ọnwa June, mgbe ndị British Expeditionary Force (BEF) si na Dunkirk pụọ na ndị agha ndị ọzọ.
N'oge ọdịda nke France, a haziri nkewa ahụ <unk> nke mejupụtara na mbụ nke Brigades nke 164 na nke 165 na ndị agha na-akwado ndị agha <unk> ka a na-ahazi ya dị ka nkewa ndị agha nkịtị na mgbakwunye nke 199th Infantry Brigade site na nkewa 66th Infantry Division.