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WW2/ White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey - Army Nursing Sisters - POW Japanese camps

' White Coolies" by Betty Jeffrey. Written diary as a memorial to the Australian nurses who did not return from their ordeal during World War Two.

Short History of BETTY JEFFREY Betty Jeffrey, Second World War nurse, POW and author of this best-selling book, White coolies. She was born in Hobart on 14 May 1908. Her family moved regularly while she was growing up, eventually settling in East Malvern, Victoria. At the age of 29 she began nursing training at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, graduating in 1939. Shortly afterwards she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service.

In 1941 she was posted to the 2/10th Australian General Hospital, then in Malacca, Malaya. The hospital was evacuated to Singapore in January 1942 as the Japanese swept southwards, but less than a month later, on 12 February, she boarded the Vyner Brooke hoping to reach Java. The ship was sunk by Japanese aircraft two days later and, of the 65 nurses on board, five were killed. The survivors made for nearby Banka Island, already under Japanese occupation.

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