H. H. Pace vacated the living, he held an auction of farm implements, dairy utensils, six ricks of hay, and other items.

[14][15] Mrs. Charlotte Whitty served as the schoolmistress for more than twenty years, after which it closed, and the children transferred to Corscombe.

[16][17][18]In August 1916, Private Joseph Hawkins was awarded the Military Medal for distinguished conduct on the battlefield in France and promoted to full corporal.

The couple married at West Chelborough on 11 July 1917 and, after the war, lived in the village at Ewens Farm.

At a tribunal in September 1916, 27-year-old Frederick William Varder of West Chelborough applied for exemption from military service because he managed his stepfather's holding at Ewens Farm.

On 12 July 1918, he died of influenza while serving with the 6th battalion of the Dorset regiment in France, leaving a widow and three young children.