Having served the
75th Regiment of Foot, he was the Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster of the
West Indies and
Officer Commanding the British Troops in Ceylon from 1893 to 1897. He was also Senior Military Officer in command of Her Majesty's Regular Troops in Jamaica replacing
Colonel Somerset Molyneux Wiseman-Clarke some time after 1884 till 1889, when he was replaced by Wilsone Black, C.B ==Family==