sentences:  The original volunteers spent nearly a year in training, before leaving for Italy to fight alongside the British Eighth Army during the battles around Sangro river in the winter of 1943.In 1944, the troop was sent to Yugoslavia, where it raided numerous Dalmatian islands held by the Germans.In the Autumn of 1944, the troop was part of Operation Infatuate to capture the island of Walcheren at the head of the Scheldt Estuary, alongside Free Norwegian and British Commandos.