Australian Military Units

Vera Deakin, OBE

Date of birth	1891-12-25	South Yarra, VIC.
Other	1913	Travelled with her aunt as chaperone to Berlin and Budapest where she was a student at the Singing School and Conservatorium of Music.
Other	1915-10-20	Arrived at Port Said, Cairo with Winifred Johnson and set up, organised and administered the Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau of the Australian Red Cross Society.
Other	1916	When Australian troops were sent to the Western Front, Deakin and Johnson transferred the Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau to London.
Date of honour or award	1918-03-15	Appointed Officer of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War.
Date of honour or award	1918-03-15	Officer of the Order of the Birtish Empire (OBE).
Other	1930	Member of the Limbless Soldiers Melba Welfare Trust.
	1931 - 1939	Member of the Board of Management of the Children's Hospital and President of the Auxiliaries.
Other	1935	Became Trustee of the Sir Samuel McCaughey Bequest for the education of the children of deceased or incapacitated soldiers.
Other	1935 - 1950	Founder and President of the of The Anzac Fellowship of the Women of Victoria.
	1939 - 1946	Was a Divisional Commandant and Honorary Director of the Inquiry Bureau, as well as the Prisoner of War Department and Message Service to Occupied Europe.
Other	1945	Became a life member of the Red Cross.
Other	1949	Became a life governor of the Childern's Hospital.
Other	1961 - 1965	Presided over the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults.
Date of death	1978-08-09	South Yarra, VIC.