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During the 1914-1918 war he served in France from 1917 in command of an Indian Labour Company.<ref> The majority of the biographical information is taken from [http://old.manfamily.org/Lowis_Family.htm Lowis Family] old.manfamily.org</ref>. This Company consisted of the  The Diary of Cecil Champain Lowis when Assistant Commissioner, Paungbyin, Upper Chindwin District, 1889 is held by the British Library, catalogue entry Mss Eur A63.

** "The first part of ''The Dripping Tamarinds'' passes in Upper Burma where Norman Fendle is assistant commissioner in a small up country station. The war comes and after experience in Mesopotamia where he is wounded, Fendle is in command of an Indian labour company in France. There he meets Ursula Underwick formerly of the English community in Burma, who has become a nurse. The story ends in tragedy. Like other novels by Cecil Lowis, this one is well written. Life in the two regions is skilfully described and there is effective contrast between the incidents and the people and between the moods and the viewpoints of peacetime in Burma and war-time in France".<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4756378 "From Burma to France"] ''The Argus'' (Melbourne, Vic) 18 Aug 1933 Page 5 trove.nla.gov.au</ref>**This was a fictionalised account of the Burmese Labour Corps in France.<ref>r.singha. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/105867-indian-labour-corps/&do=findComment&comment=2423285 Indian Labour Corps] ''Great War Forum'' 15 July 2016, Retrieved 13 August 2016.</ref>