Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 1st Battalion ya sauka a Boulogne a watan Agusta 1914 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Brigade na 12 a cikin Rukunin 4 na Rundunar Sojan Burtaniya. Kusan an hallaka shi a matsayin ƙungiyar yaƙi a Yaƙin Le Cateau
a ranar 26 ga Agusta, 1914, lokacin da ya sha wahala wasu 400 wadanda suka mutu a cikin guda biyu minti fashewa na bindiga wuta. Ya yi aiki a Yammacin Yammacin Yakin don sauran yakin. Batun na 2 ya dawo daga Indiya a watan Disamba na 1914 kuma ya sauka a Le Havre a watan Janairun 1915 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Brigade na 83 a cikin Rukunin na 28. Ya yi asara mai yawa a yakin Frezenberg a watan Mayu 1915 kafin ya koma Masar a watan Oktoba 1915 sannan zuwa Salonika.