Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An nada shi Ensign ba tare da saya ba a cikin 1st Battalion, 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot a ranar 2 ga Fabrairun 1858 kuma an nada shi don ya jagoranci jagorancin Janar Sir James Jackson, Janar Janar Janar na Cape of Good Hope. Lokacin da Janar Wynward ya yi nasara da wannan jami'in an nada shi ADC. Ya yi murabus daga wannan mukamin a lokacin da aka fara yaki da kasar Sin
a 1860 kuma ya bi rundunarsa zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya inda aka nada shi ADC ga Kwamandan Sarauniya, Sir Alfred Jephson, yana riƙe da wannan mukamin har tsawon yakin. An ba shi mukamin Laftanar ta hanyar siye a ranar 12 ga Oktoba, 1860, ranar da Pekin ya mika wuya ga Allies kuma ya shiga cikin yakin China a Sinho da kuma karɓar Tanku da Taku. An ambace shi a cikin wasiku. An nada shi Kyaftin ta hanyar siye a ranar 20 ga Yuli 1866. Ya kasance (mai aiki) Mataimakin Mataimakin Quartermaster Janar (QMG) a Bombay daga 25 ga Mayu 1869 zuwa Afrilu 1870 lokacin da aka tura shi zuwa Abyssinia a lokacin yakin. Ya kasance mai kula da jirgin sufuri kuma Ubangiji Napier ya ambaci shi a cikin sakonni don "himma, makamashi da iyawa". A shekara ta 1875 ya kammala karatunsa a kwalejin ma'aikata, kuma an daukaka shi a matsayin babban jami'in a shekara ta 1877.