 After being invalided home in 1865 he joined the 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1866, and continued to popularize fencing in his regiments.He was gazetted captain on 30 September 1868, and retired from the service in 1873.Hutton started to learn fencing at the age of twelve at the fencing school in St James' Street from Henry Charles Angelo the Younger (1780-1852), appointed Superintendent of Sword Exercise in the Army (1833-1852), author of "Infantry Sword Exercise" (1845), which remained the standard Army reference book for sword instruction on foot for 50 years.