posted on 2024-05-01, 17:15authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Entitled 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.
History
Identifier
2743.jpg | VBMMP_G5-the sisters graves at lemnos-mudros 1916.jpg
Creator
Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)
Date
11th May 1917
Date Created
11/05/1917
Spatial
Unknown
Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Format
Published
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Rights
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.
Collection ID
Vera Brittain Archive A6
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