Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakawhitihia te wehenga ki te papa Mediterranean i te Pipiri 1943 i reira te wehenga, kei raro i te whakahau a Major General Guy Simonds i muri i te hinganga o te Major General Harry Salmon (i riro i a ia te whakahau i te marama o Hepetema 1942) i mate i roto i te rererangi rererangi, i uru ki te Operation Husky, ingoa waehere mo te Allied
Ko te whakaekenga o Sicily i te 10 o Hōngongoi 1943, i mutu i muri i nga ra 38 noa iho. Ko te wehenga i raro i te mana o te British XXX Corps, e mahi tahi ana me te wehenga 51st (Highland), he waahanga o te British Eighth Army, i whakahaua e General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Ko te pakanga i mate ai te wehenga neke atu i te 2,100 nga mate.