Grave of 2537 Private (Pte) Aynsley Little, 51st Battalion AIF (centre). Private Little, a ...

Grave of 2537 Private (Pte) Aynsley Little, 51st Battalion AIF (centre). Private Little, a native of Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, arrived in Australia age 20 and enlisted in the AIF in 1916. He died of wounds on 30 March 1917 and is buried in the Pozieres British Cemetery, at Ovillers-La-Boisselle, France. He was 23. The grave at far left is that of 5619 Pte John Banks Hughes, 21st Battalion. A blacksmith from Bromley via Dunolly Vic, Pte Hughes enlisted on 1 August 1916 and died of wounds on 21 March 1917. He too is buried in the Pozieres British Cemetery and was 19. Subsequent fighting resulted in the bullet or shrapnel holes seen in Pte Little's cross and was probably the reason Padre Walter Dexter DSO DCM MC took this picture.