White Coolies
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White Coolies
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Narrated by:
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Beverley Dunn
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Written by:
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Betty Jeffrey
About this listen
It is October 1942. From the doorway of this small three-roomed cottage, which houses thirty-two of us, we look out beyond to a steaming jungle in Sumatra.
In 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were murdered and the remaining thirty-two taken prisoner.
White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival and deprivation and the harshest of conditions.
©1954 Betty Jeffrey. Betty Jeffrey asserts her moral right to be identified as theauthor of this Work. First published by HarperCollinsPublishers in. This audio version produced by arrangement with HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Ltd. (P)1997 Bolinda Publishing