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2:30 pm

Vera Deakin – Search for the Missing by Carole Woods

March 30, 2023 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Multi Cultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
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$10

Vera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, rallied to the British imperial cause in 1915 by assuming a leadership role in the fledgling Australian Red Cross Society. Aged only 23, she became founding secretary of the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau, first in Cairo and then in London. The bureau’s
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