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1 de jun. de 2021 · Dr Garry Nolan AM, Chairman Victorian Divisional Advisory Board, Australian Red Cross; Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM, President Royal Historical Society of Victoria; Mrs Judith Harley, daughter of Vera Deakin White; Her Excellency the Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria; Mr Anthony Howard AM QC; Carole Woods OAM FRHSV and Mr Thomas Harley, grandson of Vera Deakin White.
Deakin White, Vera Description Agent Type Person Place of Birth South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Activities & Occupations Charities Gender Female History Vera Deakin was the youngest daughter of Victorian-born Alfred Deakin (1856-1919), barrister and later Prime Minister of Australia, and Elizabeth Martha Anne (‘Pattie ...
23 de may. de 2018 · About Vera White, OBE. Vera Deakin (later White), Australian Red Cross (ARC). Deakin, daughter of the former Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, established the Wounded and Missing Bureau in Cairo, Egypt, in 1915 and during World War 2 she organised the Melbourne branch of the Bureau. Deakin later became the Vice-Chairman of the ARC.
16 de mar. de 2009 · This resulted in the Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau records being transferred to the Australian War Memorial in 1921. Also in 1920 Miss Vera Deakin became Mrs Vera White, after marrying Captain (later Sir) Thomas White (Australian Flying Corps). Deakin had corresponded with White during his time as a prisoner-of-war in Turkey.
White, Vera Deakin (1891–1978) Red Cross worker. Vera Deakin White, by Robert Hoffman, 1946. Australian War Memorial, P02119.002.
19 de may. de 2021 · Vera Deakin White’s life was in some ways a conventional middle-class one, and in others much more as she found ways to use her intellect and energy productively in fields beyond the home. She was an Australian-Briton, an empire loyalist at home in London and bewitched by the English countryside, but she was often homesick for the Australian summers and the beach at Point Lonsdale.
6 de oct. de 2017 · After the war, he married Vera Deakin, founder of the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau during the First World War and daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. White was the managing director of C.J. White & Sons between 1920 and 1932, during which time he entered into federal politics. In 1929, he ...
