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Accession Number | RCDIG0001056 |
Collection number | PR03295 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 15 |
Object type | Letter, Newspaper cutting, Souvenir, Photograph, Postcard |
Physical description | 28 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Various |
Place made | Australia, Caribbean: Lesser Antilles, Windward Islands, St Lucia, Gibraltar |
Date made | 1912-1915; 1919; 1948; 1997 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Miscellaneous items relating to Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, 1912-1997
File relating to the First World War service of Chaplain Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, Royal Australian Navy. This collection covers: Little’s appointment to HMAS Encounter; the newly commissioned HMAS Sydney and HMAS Australia in September 1913; the arrival of the Australian fleet to Sydney in October 1913; the history and composition of the fledgling Royal Australian Navy; several articles on HMAS Sydney and HMAS Australia; the first Australian Imperial Force (AIF) troop convoy in November 1914; the battle between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden on 9 November 1914; articles on the life and death of Leading Seaman Sidney Sullivan, last survivor of HMAS Sydney.
This file contains:
Letter from Naval Secretary, Department of Defence, Melbourne, to Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, Sutherland, New South Wales, 29 November 1912;
Souvenir and official program to commemorate the arrival of HMAS Australia and HMAS Sydney, 19 September 1913 to 28 September 1913;
Souvenir booklet to commemorate the arrival of the Australian fleet, Sydney, 4 October 1913;
Newspaper clipping from the [Sydney Morning Herald], 10 [October] 1913;
Newspaper clipping from the [Sydney Morning Herald], [8 December 1914];
Edition of the Gibraltar Chronicle, 21 December 1914;
Photograph of Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, October 1915;
Letter from Godfrey A. Louis, Inspector of Schools, Castries, Saint Lucia, to Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, 30 [censored] 1915;
Newspaper clipping from the Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1919;
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Mirror, 20 August 1948;
Newspaper clipping from the [Canberra Times], 21 July 1997; [Not Available]
Newspaper clipping from the [Canberra Times], 30 July 1997; [Not Available]
Newspaper clipping on HMAS Australia, [date unknown];
Postcard of HMAS Sydney, [date unknown];
Photograph of [HMAS Sydney], [date unknown].