Early Life
Champion grew up in a family of nature lovers. His father was the English entomologist George Charles Champion. His brother Sir Harry George Champion was also a forester, well known for classifying the forest type of India.
Champion came to India in 1913 to serve in the Police Department until 1916. He was commissioned into the British Indian Army Reserve of Officers (Cavalry branch) as a Second Lieutenant on 21 August 1916, and was promoted temporarily to Captain on 8 March 1917, and to Lieutenant on 21 August 1917. He saw service with the 31st Lancers then he was appointed Wing Officer with the Kurram Militia on the 8 March 1917, a Frontier Corps unit based on the North West Frontier of India. He retired a Lieutenant but was granted the rank of Captain on 1 May 1922.
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