Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Daly bụ nwa Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dermot Daly, onye isi ndị 4th Light Dragoons, na nwunye ya, Mary McIntosh. O sonyeere ndị agha Bombay dị ka onye isi cadet na 1840. Ya na ọtụtụ ndị ọrụ gọọmentị na-eto eto, dịka Herbert Edwardes na Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew, e zigara Daly ka ọ "nye ndụmọdụ" ndị Sikh dịka akụkụ nke Henry Lawrence's "Young Men". O jere ozi na
Agha Anglo-Sikh nke Abụọ ma nọrọ na Siege nke Multan. Na 18 Mee 1849, o welitere 1st Punjab Irregular Cavalry, nke mechara bụrụ 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) (Daly's Horse). E buliri Daly n'ọkwa onye isi n'afọ 1854 ma duzie ndị agha ya n'oge nnupụisi ndị India. Ndị agha ahụ rụrụ ọrụ na North India ma sonye na Siege nke Delhi na Nkwado nke Lucknow. Ọ gara n'ọchịchị nke Brigade nke Hodson's Horse n'oge agha ahụ. A tụrụ Daly aro ugboro abụọ maka Victoria Cross n'ihi omume ya.