I waenganui o Hui-tanguru 1943 i tukuna te wehenga ki Hiria, e noho ana i reira mo nga marama e wha e whai ake nei, ana i muri mai i Ihipa, i reira i raro i te whakahau a te British XIII Corps, i whakahaua e Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey (i mua i whakahau i te 13th Brigade i France me Belgium i te tau 1940), i uru ki te British Eighth Army, i raro i a General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Ko te wehenga, e mahi ana i te taha o te 50th Division, i tiimata te whakangungu i nga mahi amphibious hei whakarite mo te Operation Husky
, te whakaekenga a te Rōpū Taua ki Hiti.