Stará Turá's men were called up into the Austro-Hungarian army like every other village and town in the kingdom, and a memorial to the dead of the First World War stands in the town for those who did not come home. The war took the workforce off the kopanice at exactly the season the farms needed it, and the households left behind were run by women and old men for four years. When it ended, the monarchy the men had been fighting for no longer existed, and Stará Turá woke up in a new country called Czechoslovakia.Staroturanov odviedli do rakúsko-uhorskej armády rovnako ako mužov z každej inej obce a mesta v kráľovstve a tým, ktorí sa nevrátili, stojí v meste pamätník obetiam prvej svetovej vojny. Vojna odviedla z kopaníc pracovné ruky presne v čase, keď ich hospodárstvo najviac potrebovalo, a domácnosti štyri roky ťahali ženy a starí ľudia. Keď sa skončila, monarchia, za ktorú muži bojovali, už neexistovala a Stará Turá sa zobudila v novej krajine, ktorá sa volala Československo.
