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.
Identifier
2743.jpg | VBMMP_G5-the sisters graves at lemnos-mudros 1916.jpgCreator
Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)Date
11th May 1917Date Created
11/05/1917Spatial
UnknownSource
FolioMedium
PaperFormat
PublishedType
PoemContributor
Alisa MillerRights
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 A6Repository Name
McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, The William Ready Division of Archives and Research CollectionsRepository Address
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L6, CanadaPublisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
