 He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 10th Royal Hussars on 18 November 1899 and served in the Second Boer War in South Africa from 1900 to 1902, attached to a provisional regiment of hussars, during which he was promoted to lieutenant on 3 October 1900.Following the end of the war, he returned from Cape Town to England in the "SS Maplemore" in August 1902.He lived at Byrkley Lodge in the Tatenhill area of Staffordshire.