 He then attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in 1887 was gazetted first into the Worcestershire Regiment, which was cancelled later that month, and then into The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) as a Second Lieutenant.He was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain in March 1896, and seven months later was seconded for service in the Army Pay Department.Spurway made his first-class debut for Natal in 1889, but had been playing cricket in South Africa for a number of years prior to that.