The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
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Title
The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
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Identifier
2743.jpg
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Creator
Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)
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Abstract
Entitled here as 'The Sisters' Graves at Lemnos'. Published in 'Oxford Magazine'. Versions also published in 'St. Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916 in October 1916, 'Verses of a V.A.D.' (1918), and in 'Poems of the War and After' (1934). Brittain was stationed on the hospital ship the HMHS Britannic, at Mudros Bay, Lemnos in 1916 when she saw the graves of three Canadian sisters who died nursing in the camp hospital there.
Date
11th May 1917
Date Created
1917-05-11
Spatial Coverage
Unknown
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Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Format
Published
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Publisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive