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Major-General Sir Arthur Robert Ford Dorward , KCB DSO British Army officer who commanded the Troops in the Straits Settlements and served as the first Commissioner of British Weihaiwei .[1]
Early life and education [ edit ]
Dorward was born in Ootacamund , British India, the son of James Dorward of Pencaitland , Inspector-General of Hospitals, Madras, and his wife, Charlotte Matilda Ford. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Cheltenham College before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst .[1]
Military career [ edit ]
Dorward was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1868.[2] Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878.[3] 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).[4] Weihaiwei from September 1901,[5] 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,[6] Edward VII and invested with the KCB at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.[7]
He was subsequently appointed General Officer Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements with the rank of brigadier-general on 13 November 1902,[8] [9] Singapore the same month,[10] [11] South Africa in 1905.[2] World War I as Inspector of Hutting at the War Office .[2]
He died in Palma, Majorca .[12]
References [ edit ]
^ a b "Obituary: Major-General Sir A. R. F. Dorward – The Boxer Troubles in China". The Times
^ a b c Sir Arthur Robert Ford Dorward Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
^ Dictionary of Indian Biography , p.121
^ "No. 27337" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 27352" . The London Gazette
^ "Naval & Military intelligence - The British Forces in China". The Times . No. 36892. London. 7 October 1902. p. 8.
^ "Court Circular". The Times . No. 36908. London. 25 October 1902. p. 8.
^ "No. 27512" . The London Gazette
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36889. London. 3 October 1902. p. 8.
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36930. London. 20 November 1902. p. 10.
^ Army Commands Archived 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
^ Major-General Sir Arthur Dorward, former GOC Straits The Straits Times, 27 March 1934
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