Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Basa raMatthews rakatanga muna Chikunguru 1943, achienda kuSicily uye achitungamirira pfuti dzehondo dzeHMS "Roberts" uye akazowana nzvimbo dzezvombo zvehondo, achirwiswa zvakananga nemuvengi, pakurwiswa kweAgira panguva yemushandirapamwe weSicily
. MunaSeptember 1943, hondo yake yeItaly yakatanga: akazopihwa DSO. Akadzokera kuUK muna Ndira 1944, achinge aendeswa kuII Canadian Corps seCCRA, inoonekwa se "yechipiri basa repamusoro kune pfuti muCanada Forces". II Corps yakashanda muNormandy musi waChikunguru 11, 1944 uye yakatora chikamu mukuita kwakawanda (Operations "Atlantic", "Spring", "Totalize" uye "Tractable") muHondo yeNormandy. Matthews akagadzira zvirongwa zvokupfura zvehondo nokuda kwebasa rimwe nerimwe iri.