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Agnes Betty Jeffrey, OAM (14 May 1908 – 13 September 2000) was an Australian writer who wrote about her Second World War nursing experiences in the book White Coolies. Life. Jeffrey was a nurse in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital during World War II; she was taken captive by the Japanese Imperial Army and interned in the Dutch East Indies.
Sep 20, 2000 · Betty Jeffrey was a nurse who survived the sinking of the Vyner Brooke and three and a half years of captivity in Singapore and Sumatra. She wrote a best-selling book, White Coolies, based on her experiences and became a patron of the Nurses Memorial Centre.
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Sep 13, 2000 · Betty Jeffrey died of a heart attack in Melbourne on 13 September 2000, aged 92. Betty is well known as one of the Australian army nurses who survived the bombing of the Vyner Brooke, was imprisoned in Sumatra during the Second World War, and published her prisoner-of-war diary as White Coolies in 1954.
Betty Jeffrey. Betty Jeffrey trained as a nurse at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, graduating in 1939. In 1941 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service and was posted to the 2/10th Australian General Hospital in Malaya. The 2/10th was moved to Singapore on 18 February 1941.
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Jeffrey, Betty, White Coolies (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1954). DetailsJeffrey, Betty, Matron A.M. Sage 'Sammie': a Tribute by Betty Jeffrey (Herald Gravure Printers, 1970?). DetailsPaterson, Helen, '5.30, Nurse!' The Story of the Alfred Nurses (Melbourne: History Books, 1996), 272 pp. DetailsWilliams, Jennifer A., Victoria's Living Memorial: History of the Nurses Memorial Centre, 1948-1990 (Melbourne: Nurses Memorial Centre, 1991). DetailsHudson, Susan, 'Obituary: Agnes Betty Jeffrey, OAM, prisoner of war and author', The Age (2000), 28. Details
Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4898866. DetailsVIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/55680449. Details'Jeffrey, Agnes Betty (1908-2000)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473722. DetailsManners, Norman G., Bullwinkel: the true story of Vivian Bullwinkel, a young Army nursing sister, who was the sole survivor of a World War Two massacre by the Japanese (Carlisle, WA: Hesperian Pres...
Betty Jeffrey was a nurse who survived three and a half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps in Sumatra during World War Two. She wrote White Coolies, a book based on her diary, and helped establish the Nurses Memorial Centre in Melbourne.
Oct 28, 2022 · Of the 65 servicewomen who had embarked on the Vyner Brooke in Singapore, only 24, including Betty Jeffrey and her friend Vivian Bullwinkel, returned to Australia. Of the 32 taken prisoner, eight had died in captivity.
White Coolies is a 1954 memoir by Australian nurse Betty Jeffrey about her experiences in World War Two. [1] This included surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brook, escaping a massacre, and being in a camp on Sumatra. [2]
