Dorward was
commissioned into the
Royal Engineers in 1868. He served in the
Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878. He was appointed Commander, Royal Engineers in
Jamaica in 1897 and then took part in the capture of
Tientsin following the
Boxer Rebellion in
China in 1900, for which he was knighted as a
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB). Dorward then served as Commissioner of
Weihaiwei from September 1901, and went on to be Commander of the troops in
Shanghai later the same year. In October 1902 it was announced he would vacate his command in Shanghai as the British reduced their forces in China, and he returned home where he was received by King
Edward VII and invested with the KCB at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902. Dorward was subsequently appointed
General Officer Commanding the
Troops in the Straits Settlements with the rank of
brigadier-general on 13 November 1902, and left the UK for Singapore the same month, taking up the post on arrival in 1903. Two years later he was appointed Major-General in charge of Administration in South Africa in 1905. but served in the
First World War as Inspector of Hutting at the
War Office. ==References==