[3] He took part in operations in the Orange Free State from April to May 1900, and the Transvaal in May and June, including actions near Johannesburg and at the Battle of Diamond Hill.

Four months later, he left Cape Town with other officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment on the SS German and arrived at Southampton in late October, when they were posted to Portland.

[5] Huddleston also served in the First World War and became General Officer Commanding (GOC) Sudan in 1924.

[3] He was then appointed Commandant of the Sudan Defence Force, the local troops, when they were established a year later.

[3] He was appointed Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and was then briefly GOC Northern Ireland District from April to July 1940 before being appointed Governor General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan later that year.