Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 22 o Hui-tanguru 1942, i tana tohu i te Royal Military College, i tukuna a Sharma ki te 8th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment, o te British Indian Army (i muri mai ka riro ko te 4th Battalion o te Indian Army, Kumaon Regiment). I te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, i kite ia i te mahi ki nga Hapanihi i Burma i te wa o te
Te pakanga o Arakan. I taua wa i mahi ia i raro i te whakahau a Colonel K. S. Thimmayya, i muri mai ka eke ki te taumata o te rangatira me te noho hei Tumuaki o te Army Staff mai i te 1957 ki te 1961. I whakahuatia a Sharma i roto i nga korero mo ana mahi i te wa o te whawhai o te Arakan Campaign.