Military Service
He had private studies with W. T. Kirkpatrick for four months in preparation for the army entrance exam, beginning on 10 September 1913, and finished 21st among over 201 candidates taking the exam, entitling him to a "prize cadetship" with which he entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst on 4 February 1914. This enabled him a reduction of the cost of attendance. He was appointed a commission on 29 September as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps after only nine months of training (due to wartime need; the normal course of study was eighteen months to two years), left Sandhurst on 1 October, and was sent to France on 4 November 1914 to serve with the 4th Company 7th Divisional Train British Expeditionary Force.
Warren Lewis served in such postings as Belgium (1919), Aldershot (November 1919), Sierra Leone (9 March 1921 to 23 March 1922), Colchester (4 October 1922 to December 1925), Woolwich (January 1925 until April 1927), and China (two tours of duty, the first beginning on 11 April 1927 in Kowloon, South China, then later in Shanghai, and ending in April 1930; the second beginning on 9 October 1931 and ending on 14 December 1932). After retiring with the rank of captain from 18 years of active service on 21 December 1932 (he was granted a temporary rank of major when recalled to active service on 4 September 1939), he began residence at The Kilns (Headington), where he lived until after his brother’s death in 1963.
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