Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya ɗauki ƙarin darussan da horo a Misira da Falasdinu kafin a ƙaddamar da Australiya don yaƙi da Italiya a cikin hamadar Libya a watan Janairun 1941 yayin Operation Compass. 'Yan Australiya sun yi yakin basasa a kusa da Bardia
da Tobruk, kafin Brigade na 19 ya shiga Benghazi a watan Fabrairu. 2/8th Battalion kawai yana da ƙananan matsayi a farkon yaƙe-yaƙe, amma ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe don Tobruk, ana jefa shi cikin hari kan wani ƙarfin Italiyanci wanda aka tallafawa da makamai. A watan Afrilu na 1941, yayin da Allies suka damu game da mamayewar Jamus na Girka, an tura sojojin haɗin gwiwa na Burtaniya, Ostiraliya da New Zealand daga Arewacin Afirka. A cikin yanayin sanyi, rundunar ta shiga cikin fadace-fadace a kusa da Vevi, a arewacin Girka kusa da kan iyaka da Yugoslavia, kafin manyan sojojin Australiya su tura su baya. Jerin janyewa ya biyo baya, lokacin da 2/8th ya rasa mafi yawan kayan aikinsa kuma ya rushe cikin kungiyoyi da dama. Yayin da Jamusawa suka mamaye kasar, an kwashe 2/8th a ƙarshen watan ta hanyar Kalamata; wani ɓangare na bataliya <unk> kusan ma'aikata 200 <unk> an koma da su ta teku zuwa Masar, yayin da sauran <unk> kusan ma'aikata 400 <unk> aka sauka a tsibirin Crete daga masu hallaka na Royal Navy, da farko sun shiga "Costa Rica", wanda aka nutsar da shi a hanya ta hanyar 'yan bindigar Axis da yawa.