 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Akazvarwa pa30 Welbeck Street, London, mwanakomana waLieutenant-Colonel John Woodford naLady Susan Gordon mwanasikana waCosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke weGordon, Woodford akadzidziswa kuWinchester College neRoyal Military Academy, Woolwich asati apihwa basa semukuru mu9th East Norfolk Regiment yeVashandi musi wa6 Zvita 1794. Akakwidziridzwa kuva lieutenant mu22nd the Cheshire Regiment of Foot musi wa15 Chikunguru 1795 ndokuendeswazve ku9th East Norfolk Regiment of Foot munaGunyana 1799 asati aona chiito paHondo yeAlkmaarmuna October 1799 apo akakuvadzwa mukati mekupinda kweAnglo-Russian muHolland. Akakwidziridzwa kuva kaputeni lieutenant musi wa14 Zvita 1799, akaendeswa kuColdstream Guards musi wa28 Zvita 1799 uye akazova mubatsiri wemusasa kuna Major-General Sir James Forbes muSicily muna 1803. Akatora chikamu muHondo yeCopenhagen muna Nyamavhuvhu 1807 asati adzokera kuvashandi vaIshe Forbes muSicily munaKurume 1808. Pashure pokudzokera kuLondon, akasimudzirwa kuva lieutenant colonel musi wa 8 March 1810. 