Born 22 October, 1906 Hobart, Tasmania. Parents Alfred George Boucher & Hester Taylor. Father a drover & slaughterman. Served in WW1, field ambulance driver. Enlisted September 1914 discharged February 1919. The family appeared to frequently move around Tasmania a lot and finally ended up in Nhill, Victoria about 1922.

Winifred was one of four children.

  Miss Winifred Boucher, of Nhill, has been appointed to the nursing staff of the Ovens District Hospital, Beechworth - The Adelaide Advertiser, 17 December 1929

 From the ODH House Committee report 17 December 1929 – Nurse Channon of Beechworth and nurses Carr, Griffin, Boucher and Hoare of this hospital had done excellent work in collecting.

 1931 ER ODH Nurse.

Passed final exams July 1933, see The Herald dated 3 August 1933

 Date of qualification, October 1933.

 The 1934 April Register of Nurses & the 1936 ER has Winifred’s address as 17 Holbrook Street, Launceston, Tasmania.

 1936 & 37 ER nurse, living at home with her mother at Underwood, Tasmania

BOUCHER:-On November 20, 1930, at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Winifred Constance, beloved second eldest daughter of Alfred and Hester Boucher, of Launceston, in the 34th year of her age. RIP.

BOUCHER.-Funeral of the late Miss Winifred Constance Boucher will move from the residence of her sister, -Mrs. E. McQueeney, 260 Liverpool Street, Hobart, on Wednesday (Tomorrow) at 10 a.m., arriving: at Cornelian Day Cemetery at 10.20 a.m., when friends are respectfully invited to attend. H. C. .MILLINGTON PTV. LTD., Funeral Directors. 200 Liverpool St. Phono 5445.  The Mercury, Hobart, 21 November 1939 

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