Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A cikin 1906 an sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojan doki kuma a ranar 24 ga Yuni 1911 na 4th Dragoon Brigade, wanda ya tashi tare da farkon Yaƙin Duniya na Farko a watan Agusta 1914. An sanya shi a gaba a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojan doki na 7 a ranar 25 ga Agusta a wannan shekarar amma an hanzarta inganta shi zuwa shugaban rundunar soji ta 33 a ranar 20 ga Satumba. Wata daya bayan haka, a ranar 20 ga Oktoba, an sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan dukkan sojojin Faransa a Belgium, sannan a ranar 16 ga Nuwamba na 8th Army. Ya umurci rundunar soja ta 8 har zuwa ranar 2 ga Afrilu, 1915, lokacin da aka tura shi zuwa rundunar soja ta 10, wadda ya jagoranci a lokacin yakin basasa.
Yaƙin La Bassée daga 10 ga Oktoba <unk> 2 ga Nuwamba 1914, Yaƙin Artois na biyu (Mayu <unk> Yuli 1915) da Yaƙin Artois na Uku daga Satumba <unk> Oktoba 1915.