Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A matsayin kwamandan rundunar soja ta uku ta Serbia, ya halarci dukkan manyan fadace-fadace a fagen fama na Serbia a yakin duniya na farko, daga Cer da Kolubara
, sa'an nan kuma ya koma baya a kan Albania mai daskarewa, da kuma halartar sojojin Serbia a gaban Salonika. A nan, sojojinsa sun yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Kajmakcalan, suna fama da asarar rayuka da yawa. Bayan wannan yaƙin Sturm ya maye gurbinsa a matsayin shugaban Sojoji na Uku da Miloš Vasić a watan Oktoba na 1916. An aike shi zuwa Rasha don ya taimaka wa kwamandan rundunar 'yan sa-kai na Serbia. A farkon shekarar 1917, ya koma Japan zuwa Thessaloniki, inda aka nada shi Chancellor of the Order of the Crown, aikin da ya yi har zuwa karshen yakin.