Betty Jeffrey
Betty Jeffrey | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 14 May 1908 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Died | 13 September 2000 (aged 92) |
| Occupation | Nurse |
| Nationality | Australia |
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.
Life[]
Jeffrey was a nurse in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital during World War II; she was taken captive by the Japanese Imperial Army and interned in the Dutch East Indies. She later wrote about her experiences in the book White Coolies, which partially inspired the film Paradise Road and the 1955 Australian radio series White Coolies .[1] Margaret Dryburgh, Vivian Bullwinkel and Wilma Oram were fellow internees with Jeffrey.
Works[]
- White Coolies, Betty Jeffrey, Eden Paperbacks, Sydney, 1954 ISBN 0-207-16107-0
References[]
- ^ "White Coolies Radio Series". Retrieved 19 October 2011.
Further reading[]
- Shaw, Ian W. (2010). On Radji Beach. Sydney, NSW: Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 978-1-4050-4024-2. OCLC 610570783.}
- Biography of Betty Jeffrey
- "Betty Jeffrey". The Times. London. 5 October 2000. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- Hutchinson, Garrie (2005). Eyewitness: Australians write from the front-line. Black Inc. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-86395-166-1. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- Kizilos, Kathy (30 September 1981). "Prisoners of time survive as friends". The Age. p. 24. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
| hide Authority control  | |
|---|---|
| General | |
| National libraries | |
| Biographical dictionaries | |
| Other |
|
  | This article about an Australian writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- 1908 births
- 2000 deaths
- Australian nurses
- Female wartime nurses
- Military history of Australia during World War II
- Australian Army personnel of World War II
- Australian women in World War II
- Women in the Australian military
- World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
- 20th-century Australian writers
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- World War II nurses
- Australian prisoners of war
- Australian women nurses
- Australian Army officers
- People from Hobart
- Australian writer stubs