Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Yankin Yammacin Yankin ya kasance wuri ne daban daban da abin da Regiment ya saba da shi a cikin yankin kuma su, kamar yadda sauran sojojin sojojin Indiya suka yi, sun sha wahala sosai a lokacin hunturu. A sakamakon haka, a watan Disamba na shekarar 1915 an yanke shawarar cewa za a janye rukunin sojan sama na sojojin Indiya daga Faransa kuma a tura su zuwa wasu wuraren. A sakamakon haka, an tura Bataliya ta 1, tare da sauran Rukunin na 3, zuwa Mesofotamiya don shiga cikin yaƙin neman zaɓe a kan Ottomans wanda ya fara a 1914. An ba da Brigade na Sirhind lambar lamba, Brigade na 8. A cikin 1916 1st Gurkhas ya shiga cikin ƙoƙari da yawa, gami da kai hari kan Dujaila Redoubt a watan Maris, don sauƙaƙe
Kut-al-Amara, wanda Ottomans suka kewaye shi tun 7 ga Disamba 1915. Waɗannan ƙoƙarin, duk da haka, sun gaza kuma Kut ya kasance a ƙarƙashin kewaye har sai ya mika wuya ga Ottomans a ranar 29 ga Afrilu 1916.