 It was after the 1914-18 war, where he worked at the Woolwich Arsenal, that the big change in his life took place.In 1918 he left London and settled in the Hampshire village of Itchen Stoke where he lived for forty five years as a true artist despising money and fame.He let his large country house to fishermen from the Stock Exchange to pay his rates and sold his Turner Gold Medal to get electricity installed in the house, while Fred moved into the adjacent barn studio.