[3] He was later seconded to serve in British India, where he was attached to the Madras-based Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles with the local rank of captain.
[7] Taite served throughout the entirety of the Second World War, taking part in the Normandy campaign with the 34th Armoured Brigade, where he saw action at the Battle of Le Harve in September 1944.
Following the Allied victory at Arnhem, Taite led his squadron against the Grebbe Line and thereafter organised German surrenders at Hilversum and Bussum.
[9] On the evening of the 7 May, he led a detachment of his squadron into Amsterdam, reaching the city centre hours after the shooting on Dam square, in which German soldiers killed 30 Dutch civilians.
At sunset, Taite reached the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, and there he received the surrender of the German Ortskommandant Oberstleutnant Hans A. Schröder, in preparation for its occupation by the First Canadian Army the following day.