 Inglis akaberekerwa muCasouli, India apo baba vake, Lieutenant-Colonel John Eardley Inglis vaishanda mu32nd Cornwall Regiment of Foot. Amai vake vakanga vari Hon. Julia Selina Thesiger, mwanasikana waFrederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford. Pakazosvika June 1857, apo Inglis akanga asingasviki gore rimwe chete, baba vake vakanga vari wechipiri-mu-mutemo pasi paSir Henry Lawrence kuLaknow apo nzvimbo yeBritain yakanga yakakomberedzwa nevapanduki veIndia. Lawrence akaurayiwa mumazuva okutanga okurwiswa, uye somugumisiro Col. Inglis akatora murairo wemauto eBritain. Mai Inglis vakaramba vachichengeta dhayari yezvakaitika panguva yekukombwa kwakatora kusvika munaNovember apo maBritish akaburitswa zvichitevera kununurwa kweguta naGeneral Colin Campbell. Diary yake yakabudiswa muna 1892. 