Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Hukumomin New Zealand sun tura rundunar Sojojin New Zealand ta 2 don yin yaƙi a matakai uku <unk> duk an tsara su ne don Masar, amma an karkatar da su zuwa Scotland (za su isa can a watan Yunin 1940) bayan mamayewar Jamus na Faransa. A watan Afrilun 1941, bayan wani lokacin horo a Masar, 2NZEF na New Zealand na 2nd, wanda aka kafa a Masar, an tura shi don shiga cikin kare Girka
a kan mamayewa da sojojin Italiya, kuma ba da daɗewa ba sojojin Jamus ma lokacin da suka shiga mamayewa. An kafa wannan tsaron tare da rukunin Biritaniya da na Ostiraliya - rundunar Commonwealth mai girman jiki a karkashin jagorancin Janar Henry Maitland Wilson na Burtaniya da aka sani da W Force, sun goyi bayan sojojin Girka da suka raunana.