​​In May 1943, following an outbreak of typhoid amongst workers on the Island, the building was converted into the Organisation Todt (OT) hospital. The previous OT Lazarett, located at ‘Rosemount’ on Mont Pinel, St Saviour, was no longer adequate for the purpose. Part of the gardens surrounding the building were also requisitioned to service the hospital kitchens, thereby reducing the growing area for the civilian communal kitchen in Phillips Street, St Helier, which provided thousands of cheap meals per week to struggling families.

​The OT Hospital was staffed by two Spanish doctors, two German doctors and a Spanish dentist – all orderlies were also Spanish. One Spanish orderly was named Vincente Gasulla-Sole, Jerseyman Norman Le Brocq recalled that: ‘[Ukrainian slave worker Vasilly] Marempolsky [who] was at…Lager Brinkforth [St Ouen], came down with dysentery and was taken to the hospital at Girls’ College by a Spanish orderly and he remembered a particular Spanish orderly [named Sole] who Marempolsky claimed saved his life because he wasn’t far off dying.’

​Belgian forced worker Emile Boydens also benefitted from the great kindness of Sole, after an operation on his finger.

​‘The funny thing was, when I came round from the operation…I could smell lovely food. I thought Christ, I hope to God this is for me, but it wasn’t. All of a sudden, I saw [Vincente Gasulla] Sole in the yard… I said, “Is it you Sole?” “How are you getting on mate?” I said, “I’ve just had an operation.” “Well, tomorrow, come here at one o’clock. I’ll have a plate ready for you. And he did. Three months I had good food – I was so pleased about that, and I’ve never forgotten the chap. We kept the best of friends, even after the war. I used to work with him, and we stayed friends for ever.’

​Undertaker’s records reveal that many of the 101 forced and slave labourers who died in Jersey from injuries sustained when working on the fortifications passed away at the OT Hospital.

​The hospital closed in October 1943 but was re-opened as a German naval hospital in August 1944. It was later used by the Royal Army Medical Corps after the Liberation of Jersey in May 1945. Sadly, many Ladies College artefacts, including the original honours boards, were lost as a result its wartime use.