 After the end of the war, Alfred Gissing remained in the army, serving in Iraq and then working for the "Inter-Allied Press Censorship Committee" in Constantinople between May 1919 and February 1920.He was demobilised on 5 March 1919 and resigned his commission in the Special Reserve on 28 April 1920, leaving the service with the rank of lieutenant.Despite his military experience and while he was still in his early forties at the beginning of the Second World War, Alfred Gissing did not seem to have joined the Army or the Home Guard and nothing is known of his activities during that time.