Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, i mahi a Hakewill-Smith hei Kaiwhakahaere Whakahaere (CO) o te 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, mo etahi marama mai i te Haratua 1940 a, mai i te Mahuru o taua tau, ko te CO o te 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, hei kaitiaki kaitiaki. I whakatairangahia ia ki te pirihimana mo te wa poto i te 30 o Poutu-te-rangi 1941, ka whakahau ia i te 157th Infantry Brigade tae noa ki te mutunga o Poutu-te-rangi 1942. I muri mai ka riro ia hei Kaiwhakahaere Whakahaere i te Tari Pakanga, i mua i te whakawhiwhinga ki te rangatira o te 155th Infantry Brigade i waenganui o Hui-tanguru 1943. I te 26 o Tihema, i whakatairangahia ia hei rangatira mo te wa poto, i riro i a ia te rangatira o te 52nd (Lowland) Divisions Infantry Division mai i a Major General Neil Ritchie hei Kaiwhakahaere Matua. I whakahau ia i te wehenga 52 i te wā o te
pakanga i te raki-uru o Uropi mai i te Oketopa 1944 tae noa ki Mei 1945.