Lieutenancy by ‘repeated acts of conspicuous gallantry’, as Mate of the "Calliope" in the China War (1841), assisted at the destruction of a 20-gun battery at the back of the island of Anunghoy on 23 February 1841 and on 13 March 1841 served in the boats at the capture of several rafts and of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton. He was similarly employed at the capture of that city on 18 March 1841 and, during the second series of hostilities against it, was afresh engaged in the boats at the destruction on 26 May of the whole line of defences, extending about two miles from the British factory.