Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga nan ya zama Janar Janar na Kwamandan Rundunar Indiya ta 7 a Indiya a 1911 kuma Shugaban Janar na Janar a Indiya daga 1912. A watan Janairun 1916 an nada shi Kwamandan Sojojin Mesopotamian, a matsayin wani bangare na rundunar da aka tura don kwantar da sojojin Sir Charles Townshend a Kut
Ka yi haƙuri. A shekara ta 1913 an ba shi mukamin Kanar na East Lancashire Regiment, wanda ya rike har zuwa 1920.