Ka cika wannan jumla: Belling ya yi karatu a matsayin ɗan makaranta kuma ya shiga rundunar sojojin Prussia a shekara ta 1737. Saboda karamin jikinsa an tura shi zuwa Kolberg don aikin garrison kawai. A cikin 1739 ya shiga cikin Prussian Hussars kuma an cire shi zuwa Zieten Hussars a 1741. A duk lokacin Yaƙin Nasara na Austriya ya yi yaƙi a yaƙin Mollwitz, Hohenfriedberg, Prague da
Kesselsdorf. (Yadda ake amfani da ita)