Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: 1st Battalion rutere na Le Havre dịka akụkụ nke 3rd Brigade na 1st Division na British Expeditionary Force na August 1914 maka ọrụ na Western Front. Battalion nke abụọ rutere na Laoshan Bay maka ọrụ megide mpaghara German nke Tsingtao na Septemba 1914 wee hụ ihe na
Nchịkọta nke Tsingtao n'October 1914. Mgbe ọ laghachiri n'ụlọ na Jenụwarị 1915, ndị 2nd Battalion rutere na Cape Helles dị ka akụkụ nke 87th Brigade na 29th Division na Eprel 1915; a kpọpụrụ ya na Gallipoli na Jenụwarị 1916 wee rute na Marseille na Machị 1916 maka ọrụ na Western Front.