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The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

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AuthorBrittain, Vera (1893-1970)
TitleThe Sisters Buried at Lemnos
NotesEntitled 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.
Item Date11th May 1917
Creation placeUnknown
File typeImage
Item sourceFolio
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPublished
ContentPoem
Collection IDVera Brittain Archive G5
Repository nameMcMaster 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 URLhttp://library.mcmaster.ca/
CataloguerAlisa Miller
FilenameVBMMP_G5-the sisters graves at lemnos-mudros 1916.jpg
CopyrightThe 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 repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/2734