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Agnes Betty Jeffrey, OAM (14 May 1908 – 13 September 2000) was an Australian writer who wrote about her Second World War nursing experiences in the book White Coolies.
Sep 20, 2000 · After three and a half years of this life, the 24 Australian nurses who had survived the ordeal were taken to Singapore to regain their health when the war ended. Jeffrey arrived home in Melbourne in October 1945, but was hospitalised with tuberculosis after her first night at home.
Oct 28, 2022 · Of the 65 servicewomen who had embarked on the Vyner Brooke in Singapore, only 24, including Betty Jeffrey and her friend Vivian Bullwinkel, returned to Australia. Of the 32 taken prisoner, eight had died in captivity.
Betty Jeffrey trained as a nurse at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, graduating in 1939. In 1941 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service and was posted to the 2/10th Australian General Hospital in Malaya.
BETTY JEFFREY was the principal chronicler of the gallant band of British, Dutch and Australian women who for four years faced every known deprivation and humiliation as prisoners in Japanese camps in Sumatra.
often transferred interstate to implement new accounting methods. Jeffrey came to dislike her first name, preferring to be called Betty. After many years of travelling, the family finally settled in East Malvern, Victoria, a town Jeffrey would call home for the rest of her life. As part of a large family, she was surrounded by the singing and ...
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Sep 13, 2000 · Agnes Betty Jeffrey was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service when she was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942. She was incarcerated for three and half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps in Sumatra.
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