The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

Item

Title

The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

Identifier

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Creator

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Abstract

Typescript published in 'Verses of a V.A.D.' (1918) and 'Poems of the War and After' (1934)" Versions also published in 'St Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916 in October 1916 and 'Oxford Magazine', 11 May 1917. 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

1934

Date Created

1934-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1934-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Published

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive