 Kuramba asingashandi kwemwedzi mishomanene yakatevera, mukupera kwaApril 1944 Dorman-Smith akaziva kuti aizopiwa simba re3rd Infantry Brigade, chikamu che1st Infantry Division, yaitungamirirwa naMajor General Ronald Penney, ipapo vachirwisana paItaly Front muAnzio beachhead. Panguva ino, zvisinei, mukurumbira wake waive wakadai zvekuti vese vakuru vakuru veBritish muItari, kubva kuna General Sir Harold Alexander, C-in-C weAllied Armies muItari AAI, uyo akange atora General Auchinleck saC-in-C Middle East muna Nyamavhuvhu 1942, pamwe nemukuru wake wevashandi, Lieutenant-General John Harding, uye Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, mukuru weEighth Army, vese vaida kumuramba, asi vakadzingwa naBrooke, uyo akajekesa kuna Dorman-Smith kuti iyi yaive yake nyura kana kushambira nguva. Alexander, Harding naLeese vose vakanga vari vadzidzi pamwe chete paCamberley mukupera kwema1920, Alexander mugore rokupedzisira, Harding - akazvimiririra mupfungwa uye akaderera pakukura - uye mumwe uyo Dorman-Smith airemekedza zvikuru, mugore rakatevera, nepo Leese akanga ari mugore raDorman-Smith. 