 He served as an aide-de-camp to the Colonial Office, on special service, from August 1849.During this period, Richard Clement tended to his father, Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt..

Richard Clement Moody served at Chatham Dockyard and at Plymouth during 1851.Moody was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1852, as which he served until 1854.