Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Way ya ci gaba da zama babban a cikin 29th Foot a ranar 25 ga Fabrairu 1808. Ya yi aiki a ƙarƙashin Sir Brent Spencer daga Cadiz, kuma tare da shi ya shiga rundunar Sir Arthur Wellesley, suka sauka a Mondego Bay, Portugal, a ranar 3 ga Agusta. Ya shiga cikin yakin Roliça
a ranar 17 ga watan Agusta, lokacin da, a kan samun filayen tare da wasu maza da jami'an rundunarsa, shi, lokacin da abokan gaba suka kai hari, an ceto shi daga bindigar wani dan Faransa na Grenadier ta hanyar dan Adam Janar Brenier, kuma ya zama fursuna. An musayar shi a lokaci don shiga cikin ayyukan a Portugal lokacin da Sir Arthur Wellesley ya dawo a watan Afrilu 1809. Ya umurci sojojin soja na Brigadier-general R. Stewart, wanda ya jagoranci jagorancin sojojin Birtaniya, kuma ya kasance a cikin ayyukan da ke wucewa na Vouga a ranar 10 ga Mayu da tsaunukan Grijon a rana mai zuwa, a kan hanyar Douro da kama Porto a ranar 12, da kuma bin bin bin sojojin Soult.