Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya kasance a matsayin kyaftin a Siege na Lucknow a lokacin Tawayen Indiya na 1857 kuma a matsayin Manjo a yakin Oudh na 1858. A Yaƙin China
na 1860 ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin babban jami'in janar a kan ma'aikatan Manjo-Janar Sir Robert Napier kuma a matsayin sakataren soja a Indiya da Abbysinia. Ya kasance Mataimakin Mataimakin Sarauniya Victoria daga 1868 zuwa 1878 lokacin da, yanzu ya zama babban janar, an nada shi mataimakin sakataren soja ga Yarima George, Duke na Cambridge.