Sister Agnes Betty Jeffrey, OAM

Date of birth	1908-05-14	Hobart, TAS.
Other	1937	Began nursing training at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
Other	1939	Graduated from nursing training at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs)	1941-04-09	Joined the Australian Army Nursing Service and posted to the the 2/10th Australian General Hospital stationed in Malacca, Malaya.
Other	1942-01	The Hospital was evacuated to Singapore.
Other	1942-02-12	Jeffrey and 65 other nurses, including Vivian Bullwinkel, boarded the SS Vyner Brooke to escape the Japanese invasion of Singapore.
Date captured	1942-02-16	The SS Vyner Brooke was sunk by Japanese aircraft. The survivors made for nearby Banka Island, already under Japanese occupation. Jeffrey's group were taken prisoner and began life as captives.
Date released	1945-08-08	Released from captivity at Pelambang prisoner of war camp.
Date returned to Australia	1945-10-18	Jeffrey arrived home in Melbourne, VIC. She was hospitalised with tuberculosis after her first night at home.
Date of discharge	1946-11-06	Discharged from the Australian Army Nursing Service.
Other	1949	She and Vivian Bullwinkel began raising funds to establish a nurses' memorial centre in Melbourne.
Other	1950	Jeffrey became the Nurses Memorial Centre's first administrator.
Other	1986 - 2000	Patron of the Nurses Memorial Centre.
Date of honour or award	1987-06-08	Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).
Date of death	2000-09-20	Melbourne, VIC.