Source: File: Men from 6th
(City of London) Bn, The London Regiment (City of London Rifles) 1915. See an
original image at: <http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/6th-city-of-london-bn-london-regiment.html>
[Accessed 27 December 2016]
To illustrate tragedies of war on
families,
Came the story of a family of the
Littles'
From Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire
-
Before 1914 Jim Little and his
wife had
Emigrated to begin a new life in
America.
The young couple had a daughter,
Alice.
While the husband and father
remained
In New York, Mrs. Enid Margaret
Little aged
24 and daughter Alice Laura of 14
months,
Set out to sail to England
onboard the ship
Lusitania - on 1 May 1915 they
travelled
Second class when the ship was
struck.
Sunk by a German submarine both
were
Drowned - after the tragedy
greatly plagued
With grief, husband and father
Jim Little had
Decided to fight for his homeland.
He came
Back to England joining 1st/6th
Battalion
London Regiment (City of London
Rifles).
A rifleman, Private Little 6460
by autumn
1916, was fighting on the western
front.
Further sadness befell the Little
family,
When Arthur and Laura Little of
Aylesbury
Received the telegram that told
how their
Son had been killed on the
Belgium front.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Toll Of The War. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 2 December 1916. P.11.
Col.6. Available at:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12213909/Daily-Telegraph-December-2-1916.html>
[Accessed: 27 December 2016].
Source: File: entry
by Liverpool Anne 02 December 2009. Available at: <http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=302984.72>
[Accessed 27 December 2016]
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 27 December 2016).
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