Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Herbert ya shiga siyasa lokacin da aka sake shi don Ludlow, ba tare da wata matsala ba, a watan Fabrairun 1854, yana riƙe da kujerar har sai ya yi murabus a watan Satumba na 1860. Ya ci gaba da yin aiki a cikin sojojin, an nada shi mataimakin babban jami'in kwastam na Sir De Lacy Evans na rundunar sojojin Gabas. Ya sauka a cikin Crimea a cikin wannan matsayi na ma'aikata, yana karɓar manyan raunuka a yakin Alma
da kuma kewaye Sevastopol da kuma bauta a cikin Battle of Inkerman. Ya maye gurbin Sir Richard Airey a matsayin janar janar na dukan sojojin sojojin Birtaniya daga lokacin da Airey ya koma Ingila har zuwa lokacin da aka kwashe Crimea. Don ayyukansa a cikin Yakin Crimea an sanya shi mataimakin mataimakin Sarauniya Victoria, Abokin Tsarin Bath (CB) da kanalan (a matsayin matsayin mai ba da izini, a ranar 28 ga Nuwamba 1854), kuma ya kuma sami lambar yabo daga gwamnatocin Turkiyya, Sardinian da Faransa.