 Between 1949 and his retirement in 1952, he was General Officer Commanding the Portsmouth Group, Royal Marines, having been promoted to major general on 24 November 1949.He was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1950 and as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1952.Tollemache married Nora Priscilla Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor, on 6 February 1926, and together they had two sons.