Dashwood was a wartime guest player for Exeter City during 1944/45 when, as the situation eased, a number of games were organised to constitute the first football played by the club since 1939. 

Reported to have been on the books of Fulham, he is recorded as having played for Exeter City in April 1945 against the Devonshire Regiment at Weymouth in a game played in aid of Merchant Navy Week.