Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da aka kafa rukunin 'yan bindigar Latvia a 1915, Auzāns yana cikin Uzbekistan. Ya koma Latvia a shekara ta 1916 kuma ya shiga cikin rukunin 'yan bindiga; a ƙarshe ya zama kwamandan rundunar bindigogi ta Bauska ta 7. Kafin shahararrun yakin Kirsimeti
, An nada Auzāns a matsayin kwamandan Brigade na 2 na Latvian Rifleman.