他是第24步兵营的军官，之后居住在南威尔士边境地区（即威尔士南部和英格兰接壤边境），他也曾在1852年第二次英缅战争中服过役。
He was an officer in the24th Foot Battalion , later the South Wales Borderers , and had also served in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in1852 .
英缅战争