I te tau 1820, ka uru ia ki te ope taua o te British East India Company, ka whakawhiti ki te ope taua o Ingarangi i te tau 1825. I a ia e awhina ana i te karere o Ingarangi ki Persia, i kite ia i te whawhai i te pakanga i waenga i Persia me Russia i te 1826 ana i te 1829 i tae atu ia ki nga Balkans i te Pakanga Russo-Turkish, 1828-1829. Mai i te 1832 ki te 1834, i kite ia i te Pakanga o nga Tuakana e Rua i Portugal, a i te 1835 i uru ia ki te 6th Cape Frontier War
i Awherika ki te Tonga hei kaitiaki o te puni me te kaitiaki whaiaro ki a Sir Benjamin d'Urban. Ko ia te mokopuna o Charles Collier Michell, i marenatia i Cape Town i te 25 o Oketopa 1837 tana tamahine a Eveline Marie, i whanau i te 16 o Aperira 1821.