Kammala wannan jumla: A shekara ta 1940, Deans ya kasance a Gabas ta Tsakiya, inda aka kai 2NZEF don aikin yaƙi. Ya ci gaba da zane-zanensa, yana yin zane-zane na yankunan karkara na Masar. Kwamandan kwamandansa, Lieutenant Colonel Howard Kippenberger, ya goyi bayan aikinsa. Daga baya Deans ya kammala hoton Kippenberger wanda aka yi amfani da shi don kwatanta tarihin rayuwarsa. A watan Maris na 1941, an tura rukunin New Zealand na 2 zuwa Girka. Gwamnatin Biritaniya ta yi tsammanin mamayewar Girka da Jamusawa suka yi kuma ta yanke shawarar aika da sojoji don tallafawa Helenawa, waɗanda ke fama da rauni.
sun riga sun yi yaƙi da Italiya a Albania. Rukunin New Zealand na 2 na ɗaya daga cikin rukunin Allied da aka tura zuwa Girka. Yaƙin neman zaɓe ya kasance kaɗan fiye da jerin janyewa amma Deans har yanzu yana samun lokaci don yin zane-zane na rayuwa a ƙauyukan Girka da ya gani. A ƙarshen yaƙe-yaƙe a Hellas, Deans yana cikin waɗanda aka kwashe zuwa Karita.