The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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)
Melbourne, Vic. 1946. Photograph of a portrait painted in oil on canvas by the artist Robert Hofmann. The portrait is of Mrs Thomas Walter White OBE (nee Vera Deakin), daughter of the former Australia
Studio portrait of Miss Vera Deakin, now Mrs T W White (wife of Colonel the Honourable T W White MP), Honorary Secretary of the Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau, Australian Red Cross Socie
Melbourne, Vic. 1946. Photograph of a portrait painted in oil on canvas by artist Robert Hofmann. The portrait is of Group Captain Thomas Walter White DFC VD MP. White served with the Australian Flyin
Informal portrait of Flight Lieutenant the Honourable Thomas Walter White DFC VD MP (seated) in uniform and Flying Officer F.A. Sewell conferring over a paper in the outdoors. White served with the Au
Collection relating to service of 580 Lance Corporal Harry Hodgman, 5 Battalion, Gallipoli, 1915. Collection includes a letter from Vera Deakin, Australian Branch British Red Cross, to Hodgman's fath
LAUNCHING OF H.M.A.S. WARRAMUNGA. L-R: THE MIN. FOR THE NAVY (MR. MAKIN), THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (MR. FORDE) THE HIGH COMM. FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM (SIR RONAL CROSS) VICE ADMIRAL SIR GUY ROYLE, MRS.
