Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; born Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educated Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieutenant wrote: "Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do."
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; born Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educated Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieutenant wrote: "Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do."
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; born Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educated Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieutenant wrote: "Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do."
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; born Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educated Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieutenant wrote: "Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do."
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Private, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles). Age: 18.
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