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His first posting was in the Khasi hills where the mission was to establish transport of coal to the plains. He was fascinated by the region and wrote an account of its people. He returned to England in 1843 and married his cousin Anna Maria (d. 1875), daughter of Martin White. She joined him back to India but returned due to ill health. He was posted to enquire on the relationship between irrigation by the proposed Ganges Canal and its impact on public health in the area. For a while he worked He served in both the Sikh wars (1845-6 and 1848-9). He left India in 1848 to live in Edinburgh with his wife and for three years lectured at the Scottish Military Academy. He wrote a volume on forts (1851).
A daughter, Amy was born in 1852 and shortly after her birth, Yule returned to Bengal. He worked in Arakan and Burma and was put in charge of a new railway system. This was interrupted by a posting as a secretary to Colonel Colonel Arthur Phayre's mission to Ava, Burma in 1855. During this period he published Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava (1858) with illustrations. The 1857 rebellion made his work difficult and although Yule was close to the governor generals Lord Dalhousie and Lord Canning, he lost interest in his.
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