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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.
Agnes Betty Jeffrey Agnes Betty Jeffrey was born in Hobart on 14 May 1908, the second youngest child of six. As a child Betty and her family moved often on account of her father’s job. An accountant at the General Post Office, he was often transferred interstate to implement new accounting methods. Jeffrey
Sep 13, 2000 · 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.
Captain Vivian Bullwinkel (left) and Lieutenant Agnes Betty “Jeff” Jeffrey at a dedication ceremony to the fallen of the Second World War, c. 1950. AWM P04585.001. In February 1942, with Japanese bombing raids hitting Singapore day and night, Australian nurses were ordered to evacuate.
Apr 23, 2017 · In this episode you are going to hear a rare piece of history taken from the personal account of Australian war nurse, Betty Jeffrey.
One of the surviving nurses from the SS Vyner Brooke, Betty was washed ashore some days after the Bangka Island massacre but was captured and became a Prisoner of War. Betty wrote White Coolies based on a secret diary kept during her three and a half years in a POW camp in Sumatra.
Agnes Betty Jeffrey (1908-2000), nurse, administrator and author, was born on 14 May 1908 in Hobart, fifth of six children of Tasmanian-born parents William Jeffrey, clerk, and his wife, Amelia Matilda, née Cooley. By 1913 the family had moved to Melbourne.
