Dee ihe na-esote paragraf a - Amụrụ na 23 Ọgọst 1876, Digby Shuttleworth gụrụ akwụkwọ na Bedford School, ma sonye na 3rd Gurkha Rifles na 1898. O jere ozi na India n'agbata afọ 1912 na 1916, na Mesopotamia na Iran, wee nye iwu ndị 39th Infantry Brigade na Caucasus, yana ndị 83rd Infantry Brigade, ndị agha nke Oké Osimiri Ojii, n'agbata afọ 1917 na 1919. Ọ bụ onye isi oche nke Allied Commission of Control, Ottoman War Office
, n'afọ 1920, na onye isi nke 83rd Infantry Brigade n'oge Chanak Crisis, n'etiti 1920 na 1923. E buliri ya n'ọkwa nke onye isi ndị ọchịagha na 1929, bụ osote onye isi na Quartermaster General, Northern Command, India, n'etiti 1930 na 1932, na Commander, Kohat District, n'etiti 1932 na 1936.