Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Rukunin ya fara tafiya zuwa Faransa a ranar 20 ga Janairu 1917. Rundunar ta farko a cikin layi ta kasance a Berles-au-Bois, a cikin mummunan yanayi wanda ya kashe da yawa daga cikin dawakai da ke kawo bindigogi. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan wannan rukunin ya biyo baya lokacin da Jamusawa suka koma Hindenburg Line (Operation Alberich). Bayan haka brigade ya kasance a Ervillers don yakin Bullecourt, sa'an nan kuma a Havrincourt Wood. Ya koma St Julien don Yaƙin Ypres na Uku, inda sashin ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Menin Road Ridge
(20<unk>25 Satumba), Polygon Wood (26<unk>27 Satumba) sannan kuma Yaƙin na biyu na Passchendaele (26 Oktoba<unk>10 Nuwamba). Wadanda suka mutu sun kasance masu yawa: a cikin kwanaki 14 da aka yi amfani da bindigogi guda shida D (Howitzer) Bty ya rasa bindigogi 10 da aka hallaka ko aka kashe.