Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan isowa Marseilles a ranar 30 ga Satumba, 1914, makonni shida kawai bayan da aka ayyana yakin, an tura su zuwa Ypres Salient kuma sun shiga cikin
Yaƙin La Bassée a watan Oktoba 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. Tare da rauni, sojoji da yawa sun gudu daga wurin yakin kuma a karshe an janye rukunin sojojin zuwa Mesopotamiya a watan Oktoba 1915, lokacin da sabbin rukunin sojojin Burtaniya na Kitchener suka maye gurbinsu.