[11] In 1931 he was appointed as Inspector-General of Police for the Central Provinces, was knighted in 1936, and was Federal Public Service Commissioner at Delhi in 1937 and 1939.
Returning to Britain, he served as Acting Inspector of Constabulary for the South West Region of England from 1940 to 1945.
[13] In England Chitham settled at the Old Rectory, Great Cheverell, Wiltshire,[8] a house he and his uncle Frank L. Carter had bought about 1939.
[14] In 1945 he became a Justice of the Peace[7] and was also elected to Wiltshire County Council[15] and appointed as a governor of Dauntsey's School.
A small housing development at Great Cheverell is named "Chitham Close" in his memory.