Chance served in the British Army during the First World War, being commissioned as a second lietuenant into the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) in October 1914. He was promoted to lieutenant in June 1915, and by May 1916 he was serving with the Machine Gun Corps. He was made a temporary captain in April 1917, before being made a temporary major in February 1918. In September 1918 he was seconded to become an instructor at the Small Arms School Corps at Hythe, Kent. Two months later he ceased to hold this position. Following the war, Chance returned to play first-class cricket, making one appearance for the MCC against Scotland at Lord's in 1923. He was later made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1962 Birthday Honours for political and public service in Wiltshire. Chance served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1965. In 1984, at the age of 90, he became the oldest person to pass their driving test in the United Kingdom. He died in July 1987 at Minety, Wiltshire; at the time of his death he was one of the few surviving cricketers to have played first-class cricket before the First World War.
