Kammala wannan jumla: Laye ya yi aiki a duka biyu
Yaƙin Xhosa na Tara daga 1877 zuwa 1878 da Yaƙin Anglo-Zulu na 1879. Ya umurci 1st Battalion Scottish Rifles daga 1889 zuwa 1893. Ya kasance mataimakin mataimakin mataimakin janar a hedkwatar rundunar har zuwa watan Fabrairun 1900, lokacin da ya zama Mataimakin Mataimakin Janar ga Sojoji, tare da mukamin na wucin gadi na babban janar.