10.5287/BODLEIAN6PYU.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
2011-11-30 21:36:41.159550
2011-11-30 21:36:42.338876
2011
VBMMP_G2-Nursing Sisters Graves at Lemnos-Oct, 1916-p-2.jpg
Journal
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.