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Jessie Vasey

Jessie Mary Vasey CBE (19 October 1897 – 22 September 1966) was the founder and President of the War Widows' Guild of Australia.[1][2][3]

Jessie Vasey (second from the left) on the wharf bidding farewell to the departing troop transport RMS Strathallan carrying her husband George Alan Vasey and the Advance Party of the 6th Division AIF to service overseas. Vasey is flanked by her sisters Thelma Halbert (left) and Doris Sleigh (second from right), and her sister-in-law Marjorie Vasey (right).
  1. ^ Anderson, Warwick P. (2010). "A balloon, the beach, biology and blood pressure" (PDF). Medical Journal of Australia. 193 (11–12): 679–684. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04102.x. PMID 21143059. S2CID 34572590.
  2. ^ Smith, Mary (1989). "Review of Just Us: The History of the Association of Civilian Widows in Australia". Labour History (56): 94–96. doi:10.2307/27508936. ISSN 0023-6942. JSTOR 27508936.
  3. ^ Damousi, Joy (2 April 2001). Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80218-5.
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