Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya wuce ta Sandhurst, Charles Ellice an ba shi izini a cikin Coldstream Guards a ranar 10 ga Mayu 1839. Ya yi aiki a Kanada a cikin 1840 <unk> 2, kuma ya zama laftana da kyaftin a ranar 8 ga Agusta 1845. An canza shi zuwa 82 na ƙafa a ranar 20 ga Maris, 1846, kuma zuwa na 24 na ƙafa, wanda mahaifinsa ya kasance colonel, a ranar 3 ga Afrilu. Ya tafi tare da wannan rundunar zuwa Indiya a watan Mayu, amma ya kasance mai taimakawa ga mahaifinsa (yana jagorantar sojojin a Malta) daga 17 ga Maris 1848 zuwa 3 ga Maris 1849, don haka ya rasa yakin Sikh na biyu
Ka yi haƙuri. An daukaka shi Manjo a ranar 21 ga Disamba, 1849, kuma Laftanar-Colonel a ranar 8 ga Agusta, 1851.