Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - William Doran akanyorwa seari paRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst musi wa3 April 1881. Akagadzwa somutungamiri muHis Majesty's Royal Irish Rifles musi wa 10 May 1882. Akaenda nehurumende yake kuEgypt ndokutora rutivi muHondo yeAnglo-Egyptian ya1882
uye gare gare Sudan Expedition ya1884-85. Mukupera kwaNovember 1899 akatora chikamu mumabasa akatungamira kukundwa kweKhalifa, uye nekuda kwemabasa ake muSudan akagamuchira chinzvimbo chebrevet chelieutenant-colonel musi wa14 Kurume 1900.