Sargent Jace Webster

Male

Birth date: 30.3.1891 y.

Cabin: Healthcare workers-84

Biography:

Sergeant Jace Webster, RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps)
Age: 25 | HMHS Britannic, 1916

Sergeant Jace Webster is a 25-year-old medical orderly whose calm precision and quiet resilience set him apart among the ship’s crew. Born in Leeds to a railway worker’s family, Webster joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914, determined to serve not with a rifle but with his hands. The trenches of Flanders and the field hospitals of Gallipoli have stripped him of illusions but left him fiercely devoted to his work — the mending of bodies amid the machinery of destruction.

Now serving aboard His Majesty’s Hospital Ship Britannic, Webster oversees a ward of recovering soldiers in the vessel’s gleaming lower decks. The ship — Titanic’s grand sister — is immaculate: tiled walls, bright electric lamps, and wards lined with iron beds and crisp white sheets. Yet to Webster, its beauty feels fragile, almost naïve, when he recalls the filth and blood of the front. He moves efficiently between bedsides, tending to the wounded, adjusting bandages, and keeping meticulous notes in his patient ledger, his Yorkshire voice steady even in crisis.

He keeps a small, battered notebook in his breast pocket — not an official log, but a record of the men who’ve passed through his care: names, fragments of stories, the odd sketch or prayer. To Webster, it’s a way of holding onto what humanity remains in a war that consumes it daily. He rarely smiles, but when he does, it’s a brief, disarming thing that speaks of warmth buried beneath exhaustion.

On the morning of November 21st, 1916, as Britannic glides through the Aegean, Webster is below deck, inventorying medical supplies and trading easy banter with a young nurse when a violent explosion tears through the hull. The deck heaves, the lights falter, and instinct takes command. Amid the shouts and rushing water, Jace Webster — RAMC sergeant, medic, and quiet guardian of the wounded — moves to action, once again confronting the chaos he thought he had left behind.

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