 In 1914 the Mother Superior placed the convent at the disposal of the Red Cross and around 100 military nurses lodged there.These nurses were employed at the 2nd Eastern Military Hospital,  which had been set up in the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School (abolished in 1975, now Bhasvic), and on another site at the Portland Road Schools – there were further branches in Brighton.The nurses were ferried back and forth to the convent every day.