Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tīmatanga o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, i whakahau a Patey i te kapa moana o Ahitereiria hei wāhanga o te New Zealand Samoa Expeditionary Force i hopu i
Ko Hāmoa Tiamana me te Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force i hopu i a Tiamana New Guinea. I rere ia me HMAS "Ahitereiria" ki te whakauru ki te 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron i Rosyth, Scotland a i te 8 o Hui-tanguru 1915, ka noho a "Ahitereiria" hei rangatira mo te kapa. I tohua a Patey hei Kaiwhakahaere Matua, Amerika ki te Raki me te teihana o West Indies mai i te Poutu-te-rangi 1915.