Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An kafa rundunar soji ta 1 a cikin 1914 a matsayin wani ɓangare na tattarawar Austro-Hungary bayan da ta ayyana yaƙi da Serbia da Rasha, ta aiwatar da tsare-tsaren kafin yaƙin don kafa rundunonin soja shida. Kamar dai sauran rundunonin Austro-Hungarian, ya ƙunshi hedkwatar da wasu ƙungiyoyi, tare da wasu rukunin da ba a haɗa su ba. An sanya Sojoji na 1 a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Janar na Sojojin Sojojin Viktor Dankl von Krasnik kuma ya ƙunshi I, V, da X Corps, waɗanda suka fito daga Kraków, Presburg da Przemyśl, bi da bi. A karkashin jagorancinsa, rukunin Sojoji na 1 sun sami nasarar farko ta Austro-Hungarian na Yaƙin Duniya na I yayin kare Galicia ta hanyar kayar da Sojoji na 4 na Rasha a yakin Krasnik a ranar 23-25 ga Agusta 1914. Koyaya, saboda mawuyacin halin da ake ciki a wasu sassan gaba, Krasnik ya tilasta janyewa kudu tare da kogin Dunajec zuwa yankin arewacin Kraków. A lokacin hunturu na shekara ta 1914 rundunar sojojin ta 1 ta shiga cikin
Yaƙin Kogin Vistula a cikin Poland na Rasha, ya isa Ivangorod. A watan Mayun 1915, an tura Janar Krasnik zuwa gaban Italiya. An maye gurbinsa da Janar na Sojan doki Karl Kirchbach von Lauterbach na tsawon watanni biyu kafin a ba da umarnin rundunar sojojin 1 ga Janar na Artillery Paul Puhallo von Brlog. Sojoji na 1 ba su shiga cikin Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive ba, suna kasancewa a Volodymyr-Volynskyi a wannan lokacin.