Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaakona ia i te Kura o St Peter, York, Eton College me te Royal Military College, Sandhurst, i whakauruhia a Malcolm ki roto i nga Argyll me Sutherland Highlanders hei tuarua tuarua i te 20 o Hui-tanguru 1889. I whakatairangahia ia ki te rangatira i te 23 o Akuhata 1893. I te tau 1896 i haere tahi ia me Kapene Montagu Sinclair Wellby puta noa i Tibet me te raki o Haina. I mahi ia ki te 2nd battalion i raro i a Sir William Lockhart i te Tochi Field Force i te North West Frontier o Inia i te 1897. Whai muri i tana mahi i Uganda, i reira i whakahaerehia ai e ia nga mahi i te whenua o Shuli, i tohua ia hei hoa mo te Tohu Ratonga Motuhake (DSO) ka whakatairangahia hei rangatira i te 21 o Tihema 1898. I mahi ia ki nga hoia eke hoiho i te Pakanga Tuarua o Boer i Awherika ki te Tonga mai i te mutunga o te tau 1899, ka uru ki te
Ko te Pakanga o Paardeberg i te Hui-tanguru 1900, i whara kino ai ia na te pupuhi i tana huha.