Dee ihe na-esote paragraf a - Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na nzuzo, na Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, ma nye ya ọrụ dịka onye ọrụ ndị Royal Engineers na 20 Eprel 1855. Ọ hụrụ ọrụ na-arụsi ọrụ ike na Agha nke Abụọ nke Anglo-Chinese 1857 <unk> 59, ebe o sonyere n'agha nke Canton
(December 1857) na mwakpo nke Chek-Hung n'okpuru Sir Charles van Straubenzee. N'oge agha nke abụọ nke Taku Forts (June 1859), ọ bụ onye isi ndị na-agba ụta n'ụgbọ mmiri nke ụgbọ mmiri na-agba ọsọ n'oge agha ụgbọ mmiri ahụ, na onye na-ahụ maka ndị na-arịgo n'ọkwá mgbe a na-awakpo ya n'ime apịtị. Maka ọrụ ya n'agha ahụ, a kpọtụrụ ya aha pụrụ iche n'ozi maka ịdị uchu ma nata ihe nrite nke Agha China nke Abụọ. N'ịbụ onye e buliri n'ọkwa onye isi na 1 Eprel 1862, o jere ozi na Canada n'oge mwakpo ndị Fenian na ngwụsị afọ ndị 1860. E buliri ya n'ọkwa onye isi na 5 Julaị 1872 na lieutenant-colonel na 20 Disemba 1879, n'oge ọ na-eje ozi na British Protectorate ọhụrụ nke Saịprọs.