Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Pocock ya sami kwamiti a cikin wani rukuni na ƙafa a watan Yunin 1695, kuma bayan ya nuna kansa a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Sarauniya Anne, an ba shi mukamin kwamandan a cikin rundunar a 1707. A shekara ta 1710 ya yi nasara a kan Lord Strathnaver a matsayin colonel na regiment na ƙafa, wanda ya yi aiki a Flanders a karkashin Duke na Marlborough, kuma daga baya a karkashin Duke na Ormonde. A Zaman Lafiya na Utrecht an rushe rundunarsa, amma a shekara ta 1715 an ba shi izinin tayar da rundunar soja don hidimar Sarki George I. Bayan murkushe tawayen Earl of Mar, an tura wannan rundunar zuwa Ireland, inda aka rushe shi a 1718. A ranar 2 ga Disamba, 1720, an nada Pocock a matsayin colonel na 36th Regiment of Foot, daga inda aka cire shi a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1721 zuwa 8th, ko King's Regiment. A kan tsammanin cewa Birtaniya za ta shiga cikin yakin basasa
, a 1727, an daukaka shi zuwa mukamin brigadier-general. Ya mutu a watan Afrilu 1732 a gidansa a Leicester Fields, London.