 The 11th (Service) Battalion landed in France as part of the 78th Brigade in the 26th Division in September 1915 for service on the Western Front and then moved to Salonika in November 1915.In December 1918, the regiment was used to suppress the Taranto Revolt, executing one of the rebels by firing squad.The 2nd Battalion was part of the 1st Rhine Brigade of the British Army of the Rhine from 1926 to 1928.