Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: 1st Tank Brigade kwagara United Kingdom n'oge ọkọchị nke 1941; ndị ọrụ rutere na Clyde na 30 June ma kwaga ngwa ngwa na Salisbury Plain ebe e nyere ha tankị Churchill zuru ezu maka ọzụzụ. Ndị Calgary Regiment sonyere n'ọdachi ahụ mere na Dieppe na 1942. N'ịbụ ndị e nyere tankị M4 "Sherman" ọhụrụ, ndị agha ahụ dum kwagara na Mediterenian, na ndị agha Three Rivers Regiment na-esonye na mwakpo ahụ na Pachino. Ihe fọdụrụ na brigade ahụ rutere na ndị na-esochi ndị njem nke 13 July ma jee ozi n'akụkụ Three Rivers Regiment maka izu ikpeazụ nke agha ahụ.
mkpọsa dị mkpirikpi na Sicily. Ọrụ nke 1st Tank Brigade na nke ikpeazụ a bụ nke nkwado ọkụ, ala siri ike na-egbochi ọrụ nke ndị agha agha. Agha maka Sicily biri na 1st Tank na nchekwa. N'ịkwadebe maka Operation Baytown, ndị mbata na ala Italy, e weghachiri aha ya 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade na August 1943. Ọ bụ ezie na a haziri ya dị ka brigade agha, ọ dịghị battalion moto na-eje ozi n'okpuru iwu. N'ịbụ ndị a maara maka obi ike na nkà ha, ndị ọchịagha ndị Britain nọ n'ọkwá dị elu na-achọkarị ụgbọ mmiri ndị Canada.