The st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on September and the Battle of Tel elKebir a few days later The st Battalion was one of the first units to be moved to France at the outbreak of World War I where it became part of the th Infantry Brigade in the th Infantry Division Among its first major engagements was the Battle of Mons on August At the end of the war the st Battalion was transferred back to India where it took part in the Third Afghan War and the putting down of a Mahsud tribal rebellion in the Northwest Frontier in It spent the next years in India returning home to Britain in From A Pictorial Souvenir and History of the First Battalion The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment Published by The British Historical and Art Publishing Company