Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, i mahi a MacMillan i Ingarangi i te timatanga, i whakatakoto rautaki paruru ki te whakaekenga pea o nga Tiamana. I tohua ia hei Brigadier General Staff IX Corps i te marama o Tihema 1941, i noho tonu ia i tenei pou i te wa o te Operation Torch landings i Awherika ki te Raki tae noa ki te hinga o Tunis i te marama o Mei 1943. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te mana o te 152nd Brigade i te Pipiri o te tau 1943 ka arahi i a ia i te wa o te angitu
Te pakanga ki Hiti. I tana hokinga ki Ingarangi, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te rangatira o te 15th (Scottish) Division ka arahi i te hanganga i te Pakanga o Normandy, Operation Epsom me Operation Bluecoat, i te mutunga o te mea i whara ia. I te wa i whakaorangia ai ia, i te marama o Noema 1944, ka hoki mai ia ki te whenua nui o Uropi hei GOC 49th (West Riding) Division tata ki Nijmegen. Whai muri i te matenga o Major-General Thomas Rennie, i riro ia ia te mana o te 51st (Highland) Division i muri tonu i te whitinga o te Rhine i te 23 o Poutu-te-rangi 1945.