It was evacuated to St Austell, Cornwall, during World War II.
[3] The school's war memorial plaques were moved to St John's Church, Plymouth.
Eventually despite the actions of the LEA[6] the name was changed to Sutton High School for Boys.
Due to the school's closeness to the naval dockyards of Plymouth, many alumni found themselves running into each other all across the world, from Gibraltar to Canada and Singapore.
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