 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Pakatanga Hondo Yenyika II, Horrocks akanga achishanda somurayiridzi paStaff College, Camberley, kwaakanga adzidzisa kubvira muna 1938. Pashure pokubetsera kuronga kosi itsva, ipfupi, yokurovedza maofficial, muna December 1939 akasimudzirwa kuva lieutenant colonel. Muna May akatevera, akatumirwa kuFrance kunotungamira 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, battalion yemapfuti-mapfuti yakanangana ne3rd Division headquarters yaMajor-General Bernard Montgomery. Dzidziso yeBritish panguva iyoyo yakachengeta pfuti dzakakura pasi pekutungamira kwakananga kwechikwata kana chikamu, pane sechikamu chechimiro chemasangano ari pasi. Akabatana nebato racho panguva yaro yekudzokera kuDunkirk, uye mushure memazuva gumi nemanomwe chete akanga afadza vakuru vake zvakakwana kuti apiwe chinzvimbo chenguva pfupi che brigadier, uye kutungamira kwe11th Brigade. Mukuru mukuru wekare webrigade, Kenneth Anderson, akanga akwidziridzwa kuva General Officer Commanding GOC 3rd Division panguva yekubviswa, apo Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke, mutungamiri weII Corps, akadanwa kuUnited Kingdom uye Montgomery akatora mauto. Pakudzokera kwaHorrocks kuBritain, akapiwa basa rokutungamirira 9th Brigade uye akapiwa basa rokudzivirira pakurwiswa kweGermany. Nguva pfupi seBrigadier General Staff yeWestern Command yakatevera, isati yakwidziridzwa kuita mukuru mukuru uye kutungamira kwe44th Home Counties Infantry Division musi wa25 Chikumi 1941. Akakwidziridzwa kuva colonel substantive musi wa 28 Chivabvu 1941 ane basa rekare rakadzokera kumashure kusvika 1 Chikunguru 1940. 