P02119.001

P02119.001

Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
Public Domain Mark This image is in the Public Domain

ID number
P02119.001
Object types
  • Black & white;
  • Portrait;
Date made
1918
Physical description
  • Black & white;
  • Portrait;
Collection
Photograph
Description
London, England. 1918. 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. She married Thomas Walter White DFC VD MP who was knighted in 1952 while Australian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom. (Donor J. Harley)

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