During the First World War, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps on active service in France.
[1] In 1909, Blaxland became an assistant surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but he went on working as a general practitioner.
[1] In 1911, he moved into 29, Surrey Street, Norwich, a large Georgian property, from where his general practice was run.
[2] Then came the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, and in March 1915 Blaxland was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a temporary Captain,[3] serving mostly in France as a clearing station surgeon, treating battle casualties.
[7] In 1928 the Blaxlands took up residence at St Catherine's Close, All Saints Green, Norwich.