Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Satumbar 1914, an ƙarfafa BEF ta Rundunar Sojojin Indiya A wanda daga baya ya kafa ƙungiyoyi biyu kowane ɗayan ƙungiyoyi biyu, Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Indiya da Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Indiya. Bayan isowa a Marseilles a ranar 30 ga Satumba, 1914, makonni shida kawai bayan da aka ayyana yakin, an tura su zuwa Ypres Salient kuma suka shiga cikin yakin La Bassée.
a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1914. A watan Maris na 1915, an zaɓi Rukunin 7 (Meerut) don jagorantar harin a yakin Neuve Chapelle. Ƙungiyar Tafiya ta kasance ta hanyar rashin saba da sababbin kayan aiki, kawai ana ba da bindigogi na Lee Enfield a lokacin da suka isa Faransa kuma ba su da kusan bindigogi, suna dogara da goyon baya daga dakarun makwabta a lokacin da suke gaba. Ba a saba da yanayin nahiyar ba kuma ba su da kayan aiki don tsayayya da sanyi, wanda ya haifar da rashin jin dadi wanda ya kara da tsarin tsarin, wanda aka tsara a cikin kowane rukuni kuma ba shi da alaƙa da sababbin raka'a. Wadanda suka rasa rayukansu sun kasance mafi yawan nakasa, kamar yadda masu maye gurbin ba su saba da sojojin Indiya ba kuma ba su iya magana da harshen ba. Daga karshe an janye rukunin sojan sama zuwa Masar a watan Oktoba 1915, lokacin da sabbin rukunin sojojin Burtaniya na Kitchener suka maye gurbin su.