Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Agụmakwụkwọ ya na St Peter's School, York, Eton College na Royal Military College, Sandhurst, e nyere Malcolm ọrụ na Argyll na Sutherland Highlanders dị ka onye nke abụọ na February 20, 1889. E buliri ya n'ọkwa lieutenant n'abalị iri abụọ na atọ n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ 1893. N'afọ 1896, ya na Captain Montagu Sinclair Wellby mere njem gafee Tibet na ugwu China. O jere ozi na battalion nke abụọ n'okpuru Sir William Lockhart na Tochi Field Force na North West Frontier nke India na 1897. Mgbe ọ nọchara na Uganda, ebe ọ duziri ọrụ na mba Shuli, a họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ Companion nke Distinguished Service Order (DSO) wee bulie ya n'ọkwa onye isi na 21 Disemba 1898. O jere ozi na ndị agha na-agba ịnyịnya na Agha nke Abụọ nke Boer na South Africa site na ngwụcha 1899, ma sonye na
Agha nke Paardeberg na February 1900, ebe ọ merụrụ ahụ nke ukwuu site na egbe na apata ụkwụ ya.