The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
Item
Title
The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
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Identifier
3091.cpd
Creator
Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)
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Abstract
Entitled here as 'Nursing Sisters' Graves at Lemnos'. Published in 'St. Monica's School Notes', 1915-1916. Versions also published in 'Oxford Magazine' on 11 May 1917, '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
October 1916
Date Created
1916-10-01
Temporal Coverage
1916-10-31
Spatial Coverage
Unknown
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Source
Journal
Medium
Paper
Format
Published
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Publisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive