The 4th Division, after suffering heavy losses in Tunisia, was rested for the Sicilian campaign but in late August Hawkesworth was ordered to hand over his division to Major General Hayman Hayman-Joyce, and received new orders to take over as GOC of the 46th Infantry Division, a Territorial Army (TA) formation that had seen service in Tunisia alongside his 4th Division, after the division's former GOC, Major General Harold Freeman-Attwood, was relieved of his command and arrested for a security violation.