Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A matsayin dan Janar Sir Frederick Wetherall, George Augustus Wetherall ya sami ilimi a babban sashen na Kwalejin Sojoji na Royal, kuma ya shiga soja a 1803. Ya yi aiki a matsayin brigade-major a Cape of Good Hope a 1807, ya shiga cikin cin nasarar Java
a matsayin mai taimakawa ga mahaifinsa, daga 1822 zuwa 1825 ya kasance sakataren soja ga babban kwamandan Madras, kuma a 1826 an nada shi mataimakin alkali-babban lauya a Indiya.