Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I pakaru te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao i te tau 1914, ā, nā reira, i tohua a General Evert hei rangatira mo te ope taua tekau. A ka whai wāhi poto ia i roto i te East Prussian Campaign, engari i muri i te maha o nga ra, i whakakapia ia e Lieutenant-General Vasily Flug, a ka whakakapia e ia i muri i te koroheke General Zaltsa, i muri i whai wāhi ia i roto i te whakaekenga o Galicia me te whawhai i
Ko te awa o Vistula. I waenganui o Akuhata 1915, ka whakakapihia e Evert te rangatira o te ope hoia a General Mikhail Alekseyev hei rangatira-nui o te Hauauru o te Hauauru, i whakawhiwhia hoki ia ki te kaitohutohu-nui i muri mai i te marama o Tihema o taua tau. Mai i te Haratua ki te Pipiri, i whawhai a Evert me tana ope ki nga ope o Austro-Tiamana i Opatov me Lublin. A i te marama o Hepetema, i angitu tana ope ki te aukati i te pakaru o Austro-Tiamana i waenga i nga taone nui o Smorgon me Dvinsk, mo tenei angitu, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Order o St. George o te reanga 3 i te timatanga o Oketopa.