Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Croft ya kasance memba na Jami'ar Rifle Corps (9th Company of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada) a cikin shekarun 1860 kuma ya shiga cikin hare-haren Fenian
a matsayin kyaftin a shekarar 1866. Croft ya bar Toronto a 1880 don yin ritaya zuwa ranch ɗansa a Texas.