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==Later life== Addison was a [[Freemason]] and was initiated into Aldershot Camp Lodge No. 1331 on 14 November 1923.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Five freemasons from the province who won VCs.|journal=Insight (The Journal of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Freemasonry)|date=November 2017|issue= 14|pages=18β19}}</ref> After the war, he continued as an army chaplain and served at [[Malta]], [[Khartoum]] and [[Shanghai]] and at army bases in England. He was Senior Chaplain to the Forces from 1934 to 1938, when he left the army and became a parish priest. He was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of [[Coltishall]] with [[Great Hautbois]] in Norfolk from 1938 to 1958. On the outbreak of World War II he returned to the army and again served as Senior Chaplain to the Forces. He died in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and is buried in [[Brookwood Cemetery]] in Surrey. A replica set of Addison's medals is on display at the [[Museum of Army Chaplaincy]], and at [[Sarum College]] in Salisbury.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
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