Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I uru a Bainbridge ki te Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) i te 1888 ka uru ki te haerenga Dongola i te 1896 me te haerenga Nile o 1897 ka whawhai ki te Pakanga o Omdurman i te 1898. I whakahaua e ia te 7th Mounted Infantry i te Pakanga Tuarua o Boer a i uru ia ki te Pakanga o Paardeberg i te tau 1900. I te tau 1903 ka riro i a ia te mana o te Kura o te Rererangi i Kilworth. I whawhai ia i te Pakanga o Europi, mai i te Paenga-whawha 1915, hei Kaihauturu o te 110th (Leicester) Infantry Brigade, mai i te Pipiri 1916, hei Tumuaki Matua e whakahau ana i te 25th Division. I whawhai te wehenga i te Pakanga o Somme, i te Pakanga o Messines, i te Pakanga o Passchendaele, i te whakaeke a Tiamana o Poutu-te-rangi / Paenga-whawha 1918 me te Pakanga o Aisne
i raro i tōna kaiārahi. Whai muri i te Pakanga ka riro ia hei Kaiwhakahaere Matua e whakahau ana i te Rōpū Tuatahi o te Rōpū Tuatahi i mua i tana reti i te tau 1923.