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Vera Deakin White OBE (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1978), also known as Lady White, was an Australian humanitarian known for her long involvement with the Australian Red Cross. In 1915, aged 23, she established the Australian Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau to assist the families of soldiers.
Vera Deakin White (1891-1978), Red Cross worker, was born on 25 December 1891 at South Yarra, Melbourne, third and youngest daughter of Victorian-born parents Alfred Deakin, barrister and later prime minister, and his wife Elizabeth Martha Anne ('Pattie'), née Browne.
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Vera White (née Deakin) the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and his philanthropic wife Pattie was appointed an Officer of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War.
Vera Deakin White was an Australian nurse who served in the British Army during the First World War. She received the Medal of the Order of the British Empire for her work and married Thomas Walter White in 1920.
Deakin was awarded the OBE in 1918. That same year she met Thomas White, an army officer who had recently escaped from Turkish captivity, and the couple married two years later. White pursued a political career with considerable assistance from Deakin.
Vera Deakin White was the daughter of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and a Red Cross volunteer during the First and Second World Wars. She married Thomas Walter White, the High Commissioner in London, and became Lady White in 1952.
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Vera Deakin travelled to Cairo to establish the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau in 1915. Join author and historian Carole Woods OAM as she discusses Vera's work and legacy.
