 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Hollis akagadzwa muRoyal Marine Light Infantry muna 1914 uye akashanda muHondo Yenyika I muGrand Fleet neHarwich Force. Pakati pehondo akabatira muvashandi veMukuru Mukuru weAfrica Station uye weDhipatimendi reZvirongwa paAdmiralty asati agadzwa kuva Mutevedzeri Wemunyori weDare reDziviriro yeHurumende muna 1936. Akashanda muHondo Yenyika Yechipiri seMutevedzeri Mukuru Munyori muHurumende yeHondo. Akanga aripo panenge pazvisarudzo zvose zvikuru mukati menguva iyoyo, achipinda mumisangano mikuru yose - Washington, Cairo, Tehran, Yalta nePotsdam uye yakabatsira pakugadzira izvo zvakazozivikanwa seCabinet War Rooms yava kunzi Churchill War Rooms. 