Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Farko rundunar ta yi aiki a Misira sannan kuma a Mesopotamiya, inda ta yi yaƙi da Shaiba, Ctesiphon da Siege na Kut al Amara
a 1915, inda aka kama shi da Turks. 24th Punjabis ya koma Mesopotamiya a watan Afrilu 1917, bayan gyarawa, kuma ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Khan Baghdadi. Daga baya suka yi hidima a Salonika da kuma Transcaucasia na Rasha.