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Photograph of a portrait painted in oil on canvas by the artist Robert Hofmann. The portrait is of Mrs Thomas Walter White OBE (nee Vera Deakin), daughter of the former Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. White is wearing the uniform of the Victorian Divisional Commandant of the Australian Red Cross (ARC). White established the Wounded and ...
23 de ene. de 2023 · Vera Deakin White OBE (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1978) was an Australian humanitarian known for her long involvement with the Australian Red Cross.In 1915, aged 23, she established the Australian Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau to assist the families of soldiers.
White recalls early memories of her father, former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and her immediate family; recollections by her father; her mother's family the Brownes, prominent members of Melbourne society at the turn of the 20th century; family trips to London and Europe during 1900-1914, meeting Sir George Reid and other politicians; World War I and her work in Cairo and London at the time ...
White recalls early memories of her father, former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and her immediate family; recollections by her father; her mother's family the Brownes, prominent members of Melbourne society at the turn of the 20th century; family trips to London and Europe during 1900-1914, meeting Sir George Reid and other politicians; WWI and her work in Cairo and London at the time; going ...
14 de ene. de 2022 · Vera Deakin was the youngest daughter of Australia's second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. She was well educated, musically gifted and spent time in Germany and Hungary studying music in 1914. She ...
Vera Deakin White, by Robert Hoffman, 1946 Australian War Memorial, P02119.002 Vera Deakin White (1891-1978), Red Cross worker, was born on 25 December 1891 at South Yarra, Melbourne, third and youngest daughter of Victorian-born parents Alfred Deakin , barrister and later prime minister, and his wife Elizabeth Martha Anne ('Pattie'), née Browne.
Quotes about Deakin. Alfred Deakin's daughter Vera, Lady White, remembers her father in this 1960s ABC broadcast. "He was tall and dark, graceful in his movements, quick in his movements, and with a compelling eye that held you, and of course with a lovely voice. Most unaffected voice, but he spoke pure English."
