Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te 5th (Service) Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment i hangaia i Devizes i Akuhata 1914. I muri tata mai, i tukuna te poari ki te 40th Brigade o te 13th (Western) Division, i te waahi o te 8th Welsh Regiment. Ki te toenga o te wehenga, i whakawhitihia i te Hune 1915 mai i Ingarangi ki te papa Mediterranean, ka uru atu ki te Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. I te timatanga i tohaina ki te whakakaha i nga ope i Cape Helles i te 6 o Hurae 1915, i tangohia te wehenga mo te wa poto, ka tae ki ANZAC Cove hei tautoko i nga mahi i reira. Ki te toenga o te wehenga, i tangohia ki Ihipa i te Hanuere 1916 i mua i te tuku ki Mesopotamia hei waahanga o te ngana kino ki te
whakaorangia te hoia o Kut.