Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan sake fasalin tsarin Sojojin Australiya, wanda ya ga kowane rukunin sojoji ya ragu daga rundunonin sojoji hudu zuwa uku, an sake sanya rukunin zuwa Brigade na 19. Wannan canjin ya faru ne yayin da 2/4th ke cikin teku, kuma bayan ya isa Gabas ta Tsakiya, ya tattara a sansanin a Kilo 89, kusa da Gaza, a Falasdinu inda ya shiga &lt;a href="2/8th%20Battalion%20%28Australia%29"&gt;2/8th&lt;/a&gt; da &lt;a href="2/11th%20Battalion%20%28Australia%29"&gt;2/11th Battalion&lt;/a&gt;s. Na ɗan gajeren lokaci, bayan shigar Italiya cikin yaƙin, an canza rukunin zuwa rukunin anti-aircraft kuma an yi amfani da shi a cikin tsaron Haifa, kafin a sake mayar da shi zuwa rukunin sojoji a watan Agusta 1940. Bayan sake komawa Brigade na 19, 2/4th ya ci gaba da yin atisaye da horo a Masar da Falasdinu kafin a ba da izinin Australiya don yin yaƙi da Italiya a cikin hamadar Libya a watan Janairun 1941 yayin Operation Compass. 'Yan Australiya sun yi gwagwarmaya da yawa a kusa da
Bardia, Tobruk da Derna, kafin 2/4th ya shiga Benghazi a watan Fabrairu. A cikin ajiya a Bardia, babban aikin bataliya ya zo kusa da Derna. A lokacin wannan aikin, an aiwatar da shirin yaudara daga kwamandan kwamandan battalion, Major Robert Winning, wanda ya jawo wutar wuta ta Italiya a cikin ƙasar babu kowa. Daga baya bataliya ta mamaye Benghazi a farkon Fabrairu.