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Vera Deakin White OBE (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1978), also known as Lady White, 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.
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.
Vera White (née Deakin) the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and his philanthropic wife Pattie was appointed an Officer of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War. She received her award on 15 March 1918.
Deakin was awarded the OBE in 1918. That same year she met Thomas White, an army officer who had recently escaped from Turkish captivity, and the couple married two years later. White pursued a political career with considerable assistance from Deakin.
Studio portrait of 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.
Deakin White, Vera (25 December 1891-9 August 1978). University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 09/03/2024, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/60110
Vera Deakin married Thomas Walter White in March 1920, and became Lady White in 1952 when her husband, the High Commissioner in London, was knighted. Lady White remained active in the Australian Red Cross until the 1970s. Portrait of Mrs Thomas Walter White OBE (nee Vera Deakin), by Robert Hofmann. C296048.
