He then served during the Burmese Expedition (1885–89) being breveted as lieutenant colonel on 26 November 1886 and appointed as Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in Madras (with the brevet rank of colonel) on 25 November 1887. In 1889 he commanded one of the two columns of the Chin-Lushi Expedition for which he received the Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).