Army Service
Godwin-Austen joined the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1848 and learnt survey techniques from Captain Petley and was a contemporary of Lord Roberts. He entered the army in 1851 with the 24th foot which later became the South Wales Borderers. In 1852 he saw action in the Second Anglo-Burmese war, where he served aide-de-camp to his grandfather General Henry Godwin. While in Burma he surveyed the Irrawaddy delta region after which he moved to Peshawar under Major General Thomas Reed.
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