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Unlike today, women could not enlist as a soldier in war, the only way women served was as nurses, also known as nursing sisters. Nurse Elsie Dorothy Collis not only served as one of British Columbias nursing sisters, but also attended this school. In 1911, Nurse Collis graduated from the Royal Jubilee Nursing School and enlisted as a nurse in 1915 with the Royal Army Medical Corps. She left the island for the battlefront in August of the same year, and served in Britain, France, but spent a significant amount of time in Salonika, Greece. Fortunately as many Nursing Sisters from British Columbia, Nurse Collis returned home following the Armistice of 1918.