The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
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| Author | Brittain, Vera (1893-1970) |
|---|---|
| Title | The Sisters Buried at Lemnos |
| Notes | 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. |
| Item Date | October 1916 |
| Creation place | Unknown |
| File type | Compound Object |
| Item source | Journal |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Published |
| Content | Poem |
| Repository name | McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections |
| Repository address | 1280 Main Street West Hamilton Ontario L8S 4L6 Canada |
| Repository URL | http://library.mcmaster.ca/ |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Copyright | The digitised Vera Brittain material may be used for educational purposes only and remains the copyright at all times of the Literary Executors for the Vera Brittain Estate, 1970 and The Vera Brittain Fonds, McMaster University Library. In any distribution or display of the material this acknowledgment must be clearly indicated. |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3082 |
