Ya kasance a Faransa har sai da aka janye sojojin da ke aiki a 1818, kuma bayan da ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga Major General Sir Colquhoun Grant, wanda ke umurni a Dublin daga 1821 zuwa 1823, an ci gaba da shi a cikin 75th Regiment of Foot a ranar 4 ga Satumba, 1823, kuma a ranar 29 ga Oktoba, 1825 ya dauki umurnin rundunar tare da mukamin Laftanar Colonel, a wurin Duke na Cleveland. Ya ci gaba da wannan umurni na shekaru da yawa kuma ya jagoranci rundunar zuwa Cape a 1833. Game da barkewar cutar
Yaƙin Kaffir a cikin 1836, Laftanar Janar Sir Galbraith Cole, wanda a lokacin yake da iko a Cape, ya zaɓi Kanar Ingila don ya jagoranci iyakar gabas tare da mukamin dan sanda na wucin gadi, kuma ya yi aiki a cikin kamfen na 1836 da 1837 a cikin wannan matsayi. Don ayyukansa ya sami lambar yabo, kuma a ranar 28 ga Yuni 1838 an daukaka shi zuwa cikakken colonel.