 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Lieutenant General Thomas Blamey akapiwa murairo weChipiri AIF musi wa13 Gumiguru 1939 uye akauchengeta muhondo yose. Somunhu akadaro, akanga achizvidavirira zvakananga kuna Gurukota Rokudzivirira, panzvimbo peHondo yeHondo. Akapiwa gwaro rakavakirwa pane rakapiwa Major General William Throsby Bridges muna 1914. Chikamu chebumbiro rake raida kuti Second AIF irambe yakabatana, asi nhevedzano yematambudziko ezvematongerwo enyika nemauto zvakakonzera kuti madhivhisi asatomborwa pamwe chete, nemapoka ega ega, ma brigade uye kunyange mabhatani akaiswa munzvimbo dzakasiyana kana kunyangwe nzvimbo dzakasiyana. Izvi zvakakonzera kukakavadzana nevatungamiriri veBritish, kunyanya Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, kunyanya pamusoro pekununurwa kweTobruk. 