Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ward ya shiga rundunar sojojin Birtaniya a 1846 kuma ya yi aiki a cikin 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot. Ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Xhosa
kuma ya yi ritaya a 1854 a matsayin kyaftin. A shekara ta 1886, an zabi Ward a matsayin wakili na wakili zuwa majalisar wakilai. Ya kasance Mataimakin Lieutenant na County Down kuma ya wakilci gundumar kuma a matsayin Mai Shari'ar Zaman Lafiya.