He was accepted into the RAF Reserve, and saw service forecasting the flight paths of German bombers, then working in Intelligence in India, Ceylon (as it then was) and finally Japan.
He sold Ashford Chace in 1958 but retained an interest, having first of all commissioned the building, in the large grounds, of a small modernist studio house designed by his architect nephew Edward Cullinan, where he could devote himself to playing and composing.
His will directed that his ashes "be scattered from the top of The Tower Windmill, Burnham Overy Staithe in Norfolk, in a high wind" which was fulfilled by his relatives on 7 July 1997.
to editions of John Dundas Cochrane, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Johann Dietz, Maupassant, Dame Edith Sitwell, Anthony Trollope at least 115 vocal settings, i.e. solo and unison songs, choral pieces, etc.
These include settings, sometimes grouped in cycles, of Auden, Barnes, Betjeman, Belloc, Bridges, Burns, Charles Causley, Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Herrick, A. P. Herbert, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy Parker, Shakespeare, Tennyson, W. B. Yeats Norfolk Dances, for string orchestra Hampshire Days, for string orchestra Unicorn in the Garden, ballet, first performed by Harlequin Ballet Company, LAMDA Theatre, Earl's Court, London, 7 November 1964 The Orange Carol Book (1962) A Book of Love Songs (1969) The Easter Carol Book (1982) Obituaries in The Times,[1] Daily Telegraph (8 July 1997), The Independent,[2] Who Was Who