Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'abalị anọ n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ n'afọ 1914, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment nọ na Dublin. Mgbe ụbọchị iri na otu gachara, e jikọchaala ndị agha niile, ndị agha nke mbụ agbagoro Le Havre na France, tupu ọnwa agwụ, ha ebido ịlụso ndị Jamanị ọgụ. E kenyere ndị agha ahụ na 14th Brigade, 5th Division, akụkụ nke British Expeditionary Force (BEF) mbụ. N'oge ịlaghachi azụ site na Mons na mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ndị agha ahụ sonyere na nnukwu agha nke 1914, Le Cateau, Marne na Aisne. N'afọ 1915, mgbe ndị
Agha nke La Bassée, 1st East Surreys guzogidere mwakpo siri ike na Hill 60, nso Ypres. N'ime ọgụ siri ike nke sochiri, ndị agha ahụ nwetara Victoria Cross atọ na ihe nrite asaa maka omume ọma. N'etiti ndị VC bụ Lieutenant George Roupell, onye mechara bụrụ onye isi ikpeazụ nke East Surrey Regiment. Ná ngwụsị afọ 1915, e zigara ndị agha ahụ na Ngalaba nke 32. N'afọ 1916, 1st Battalion sonyere n'agha ukwu nke Osimiri Somme, ma wepụta onwe ya nke ọma na Morval na Septemba. Ndị agha ahụ sonyere n'ọtụtụ nnukwu agha nke 1917, dị ka Arras, Agha nke Atọ nke Ypres. Mgbe ọnwa anọ gachara na Italian Front, ndị battalion laghachiri France na March 1918, ma tinye aka na agha Albert na Bapaume, na ọganihu na-esote mmeri.