World War II progressed the School moved again to Garnant, South Wales for the duration of the War. On the afternoon of 25 November 1944, New Cross Gate suffered the single most devastating V-2 rocket attack on a civilian population in the entire war. The rocket landed on a very busy Woolworths on New Cross Road killing 168 people and wounding 121; among the dead were two Addey and Stanhope school pupils, Ronald James Kenwood and Norman Henry Wilkins, both aged 11. Two more pupils were killed during the war, Stanley Fox aged 12 and Henry Jack Foweather aged 19, both killed at their homes in air raids.