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56007: The Sisters Buried at Lemnos

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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." |

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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 and in 'Poems of the War and After' (1934).
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.

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Identifier

3091.cpd | 2737.jpg | VBMMP_G2-Nursing Sisters Graves at Lemnos-Oct, 1916-p-1.jpg 2738.jpg | VBMMP_G2-Nursing Sisters Graves at Lemnos-Oct, 1916-p-2.jpg

Creator

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Date

Oct-16

Date Created

01/10/1916

Temporal Date

31/10/1916

Spatial

Unknown

Source

Journal | Folio Journal

Medium

Paper

Format

Published

Type

Poem | Poem

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

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 | 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

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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