Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O le 1/8th Battalion na amataina le taua i le 125th Brigade ma le 1/5th ma le 1/6th Battalions, ae a o iai i Farani ma le British Expeditionary Force (BEF) na fesuiaʻi ma le 1st Battalion, Border Regiment i le 4th Infantry Brigade vaega o le 2nd Infantry Division, o se vaega o le tulafono aloaia a le BEF e faʻafefiloi ai le Regular ma Territorial armies. I le taimi o le Taua o Farani, o le 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, faatasi ai ma le 1st Battalion, Royal Scots ma le 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment, na ova i le 26-27 Me 1940 i le nuu o Locon, 2 kilomita i matu o Bethune, e ala i le agai i luma o fitafita Siamani. E leʻi umi ae faia le tele o fasiotiga tagata o pagota o le ʻau Uō, e pei o le fasiotiga tagata i Le Paradis, e masani lava ona faia e le vaega a Siamani o le SS Totenkopf. Mulimuli ane, na tau le vaega a le vaegaau i le Taua a Burma ma auai ai i le tele o taua lauiloa, e pei o le
Taua o Kohima, o loo auauna i le vaegaʻau lona sefulu fā a Peretania i lalo o le taʻitaʻiga a Bill Slim.