Parents
Betty's father, who was English, was a doctor in the Indian Army. Both his parents were with the British Government in India. Betty's mother, also English, trained at Trinity College Dublin because at the time it was the only University that accepted women students. Capable of speaking seven languages she travelled to the U.S. and later to Argentina.
Betty's parents married in 1908 and had five children. Her husband served in World War I in France in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was gassed in Ypres and was totally and permanently incapacitated as a result.
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