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Winifred Ashworth was born on 3 April 1890 in Preston, Lancashire, the middle daughter of a cotton mill clerk and a seamstress. She grew up caring for her younger siblings and nursing her mother through a long winter illness, which first set her on the path to nursing. At eighteen she began her training at a Manchester infirmary, where she earned a reputation for being steady, kind and quick on the wards. When war broke out in 1914, she volunteered for military service and spent two years nursing wounded soldiers in military hospitals. In 1916 she was assigned to His Majesty’s Hospital Ship Britannic as a staff nurse. She is quiet and practical, writes home to her sisters every week, and keeps a small tin of her mother’s lavender sachets in her cabin to remind her of home.
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