 He served throughout the First World War in the Army Chaplains' Department, from 1914 to 1919, and was appointed Assistant Chaplain-General, and became a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1916 Birthday Honours for services in the field.Already Archdeacon of Lewes and a Canon Residentiary of Chichester Cathedral since 1911, he was also appointed to the episcopate in 1920 and held the suffragan See of Lewes office for six years.He resigned his Archdeaconry in 1923, his See in 1926, and his canonry in 1935.