Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te whakaoho me te whakapuakanga o te pakanga, ko te 1st Battalion, i tukuna a Wilts ki Parani hei waahanga o te 7th Brigade o te 3rd Division, i tae ki Parani i te 14 o Akuhata 1914, ana ka whawhai wawe i te Pakanga o Mons me te Hokinga Nui, i te Oketopa, i te Pakanga Tuatahi o Ypres, i taua wa kua ngaro te peihana i nga rangatira 26 me te 1,000 atu rarangi. I noho tonu te 1st Wilts ki te Raki o te Hauauru me te 3rd Division tae noa ki te 7th Brigade i tukuna ki te 25th Division i te 18 o Oketopa 1915. I te marama o Poutu-te-rangi 1918, i whai wāhi atu te ope taua ki
Operation Michael, te wāhanga whakatuwhera o te Spring Offensive o te ope taua Tiamana, a muri iho ka whakaitihia ki te kaha o te kamupene. I te wa o tenei pakanga i whakawhiwhia ai ki a Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward MC te Victoria Cross. I mahi te 1st Wilts ki te 25th Division tae noa ki te whakawhiti i te 21 o Pipiri 1918. I te 21 o Pipiri 1918, i uru atu te 1st Wilts ki te 110th Brigade, he waahanga o te 21st Division, i mahi tahi ai ia mo te toenga o te pakanga.