Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe a kpọkọtara ma kwupụta agha, 1st Battalion, Wilts zigara France dịka akụkụ nke 7th Brigade nke 3rd Division, na-agbadata na France na 14 August 1914, n'oge na-adịghịkwa anya lụrụ ọgụ na Agha Mons na Great Retreat na, n'ọnwa Ọktọba, na Agha Mbụ nke Ypres, site na mgbe ahụ battalion ahụ furu efu ndị isi 26 na ihe karịrị 1,000 ndị ọzọ. 1st Wilts nọgidere na Western Front na 3rd Division ruo mgbe 7th Brigade bufere na 25th Division na 18 Ọktọba 1915. N'ọnwa Machị afọ 1918, ndị agha batara n'ọgbọ agha
Operation Michael, mmalite nke German Army's Spring Offensive, ma mesịa belata ya na ike ụlọ ọrụ. Ọ bụ n'oge ọgụ a ka e nyere onye na-arụ ọrụ dịka onye isi ndị agha Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward MC Victoria Cross. 1st Wilts jere ozi na 25th Division ruo mgbe a kpọfere ya na 21 June 1918. Na 21 June 1918, 1st Wilts sonyeere 110th Brigade, akụkụ nke 21st Division, nke ọ jere ozi maka oge fọdụrụ agha ahụ.