Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An haife shi a ranar 23 ga Agusta, 1876, Digby Shuttleworth ya yi karatu a makarantar Bedford, kuma ya shiga 3rd Gurkha Rifles a 1898. Ya yi aiki a Indiya tsakanin 1912 da 1916, a Mesopotamiya da Iran, kuma ya umurci Brigade na 39 na Infantry a Caucasus, da kuma Brigade na 83 na Infantry, Sojojin Bahar Maliya, tsakanin 1917 da 1919. Ya kasance Shugaban Hukumar Kula da Allied, Ofishin Yakin Ottoman
, a cikin 1920, kuma Kwamandan Brigade na 83 na Sojoji a lokacin Chanak Crisis, tsakanin 1920 da 1923. An daukaka shi zuwa mukamin Manjo Janar a shekarar 1929, ya kasance Mataimakin Adjutant da Quartermaster General, Northern Command, Indiya, tsakanin 1930 da 1932, kuma Kwamandan, Gundumar Kohat, tsakanin 1932 da 1936.