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exposure on ships. She delivered a paper on her findings to Southampton doctors. Her conclusions raised controversy in the profession at the time, but were later backed up by subsequent research into
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on 19 October 1924. Her parents were Isobel and Douglas Ince, a director of an engineering company. She was one of two children and her brother David Ince, was a
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machines. Bamforth had to keep these details of her military service secret until the mid-1970s when the history of Bletchley Park was declassified.
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and applied at the age of 16. She was politely rejected and asked to apply again once she was 17. In 1941, she joined instead the
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While working at Southampton Hospital as a senior registrar, Bamforth made the link between a number of ship workers dying of
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Working as a consultant at Southampton Hospital, she made an early link in her research between ship workers dying of
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pilot during World War II. Bamforth met John Bamforth while they were both working as doctors at
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After graduating, Bamforth built her medical experience at hospitals in North America (
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exposure on ships, before the cause of this illness had been fully determined.
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and matriculated in 1946 at the University of Glasgow. She graduated with a
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in 1951 having received a Further Education and Training Grant.
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Women's Royal Naval Service personnel of World War II
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Bamforth died on the 17 April 2018 at the age of 93.
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Glasgow
Cheltenham Ladies College
University of Glasgow
Pathology
pathologist
Bletchley Park
World War II
mesothelioma
asbestos
Glasgow
Royal Air Force
Southampton General Hospital
Laurel Bank School
Bridge of Allan
Cheltenham Ladies College
University of Glasgow
Women's Royal Naval Service
Second World War
Bachelor of Medicine

Bombe
Balloch
Loch Lomond
Outstation Eastcote
Hillingdon
teleprinting
Turing-Welchman Bombe
McGill University
Meadowbrook Hospital

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