Victorian Order by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. His rank in the Austro-Hungarian Army always remained Leutnant d.R. His position as inspector-general of the Sudan terminated in 1914 due to the commencement of hostilities in World War I between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary. He then headed the prisoners-of-war section of the Austrian Red Cross. He was awarded with the title Geheimrat by Franz Joseph I of Austria in December 1914. He was involved in the plans of Charles I of Austria to get a separate peace with Great Britain and France. Later life He received absolution from the Pope for his conversion to Islam, which he had reversed. On 21 June 1914, Rudolf Carl von Slatin married Baroness Alice von Ramberg. The wedding took place in the Votivkirche in Vienna. In 1916, their daughter Anne Marie Helene was born [Baroness Anne Marie von Slatin (1916–2007) married in 1943, in London, Prince George Vladimirovitch Galitzine (1916–1992), they had three children]. During the years he served the British Empire, he became acquainted with Robert Baden-Powell and became his friend. So it was not surprising that he was asked to serve within the new founded Austrian Scout organisation. From 1914 to 1918, he was the Honorary Chief Scout of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund. In January 1929, a letter of Rudolf Carl von Slatin is published under the title Ehrenbundesfeldmeister (National Chief Scout) in the Austrian Scout Magazine "Unser Weg". He was also an honorary member of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1918, on behalf of the Austrian government led by Renner, he was instrumental, through his British contacts, in ensuring the supply of food and coal from Czechoslovakia for the beleaguered and starving inhabitants of Vienna. For this he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna in June 1932. In 1919, he was a member of the Austrian delegation in St. Germain. and was responsible for the repatriation of Prisoners of War. In 1919, a Scout group of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund in Klosterneuburg was named Slatin Pascha. In November 1918, after the war, Slatin moved to Switzerland. In 1922 after the early death of his wife he moved to the South Tyrol and lived in a villa in Obermais a quarter of Meran. Every summer, with his daughter, he would visit his old Sudan comrades in England. In November and December 1926, he visited the Sudan once again. In June 1932, he