Many of the children who attended the village school in 1907 will have enlisted during the Great War, and several lost their lives. Mr and Mrs Dugdale opened Crathorne Hall as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital in November 1914, with Belgium troops and subsequently British soldiers being quartered in the cottages and stable block following their initial treatment in Newcastle. This group of convalescing troops and their nurses, along with the Rector of All Saints' Church was taken by Miss Pearl Crake in 1915