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White Coolies is a 1954 memoir by Australian nurse Betty Jeffrey about her experiences in World War Two. This included surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brook , escaping a massacre, and being in a camp on Sumatra.
White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival amid deprivation and the harshest of conditions.
Nov 5, 2012 · 4.2 3 ratings. See all formats and editions. It is October 1942. From the doorway of this small three-roomed cottage, which houses thirty-two of us, we look out beyond to a steaming jungle in Sumatra. In 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore.
- Betty Jeffrey
Betty Jeffrey. Angus & Robertson, 1997 - Military collection - 204 pages. An account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road. In 1942, a group of Australian Army nursing sisters was...
Books. White Coolies: An Account of the True Story which Inspired the Film Paradise Road. Betty Jeffrey. Bolinda Press, 1998 - Large print books - 350 pages. In 1942 a group of sixty-five...
1863407812. Summary: In 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were murdered and the remaining thirty-two taken prisoner.
White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival and deprivation and the harshest of conditions. An account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road starring Glenn Close.
