Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - I tukuna te wehenga ki te papa Mediterranean i te Pipiri o te tau 1943 i reira te wehenga, kei raro i te whakahau a Major General Guy Simonds i muri i te matenga o Major General Harry Salmon (i riro i a ia te whakahau i te marama o Hepetema o te tau 1942) i te hinganga o te rererangi, i uru ki te Operation Husky, ingoa waehere mo te whakaeke a te Allied i runga i Sicily
i te 10 o Hōngongoi 1943, i mutu i muri i ngā rā 38 anake. 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.