The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

Item

Title

The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

Identifier

3092.cpd

Creator

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Abstract

Entitled here as 'Sisters' Graves at Lemnos'. This poems was 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

1916-1918

Date Created

1916-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1918-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive