Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A matsayin dan Janar Sir Frederick Wetherall, George Augustus Wetherall ya sami ilimi a babban sashen na Kwalejin Soja 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
ya ci nasara a Java a matsayin mataimaki ga mahaifinsa, daga 1822 zuwa 1825 ya kasance sakataren soja ga babban kwamandan Madras, kuma a 1826 an nada shi mataimakin alkali-advocate-general a Indiya.