 The boarding students were evacuated to Eagle Heights on Tamborine Mountain, where several guest houses were rented for accommodation and a building was purchased for the new school.Brother Ignatius suffered a stroke in 1944 which undermined his health and left him bed-ridden for the remainder of his life.He did not return with the senior students in 1945 after the military occupation of the college at Ashgrove had ended, but remained with the Marist community at Eagle Heights until his death, at the age of 52, in 1949.