LITTLE, Isaac Samuel
| Service Number: | 2148 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Westwood- Queensland Australia, 10 August 1872 |
| Home Town: | Westwood, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier, Miner |
| Died: | Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, 9 September 1924, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Morgan Cemetery, Queensland Plot: PRESBYTERIAN Sec 1 Row M Grave Tablet FF95 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 2148, 4th Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 2148, 4th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Brisbane | |
| 28 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2148, 4th Pioneer Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Isaac Samuel Little was born on 10 Aug 1872 at Westwood near Rockhampton, Queensland, a son to Robert Little and Jane Little (nee Wiggins).
He served in both the South Afican (Boer) War and WW1. In his first service he enlisted as Samuel Little (N.O.K. mother Mrs. R Little, Westwood, Qld) as a Private S.N. 108 in the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War. In his second service he enlisted under his full name (N.O.K. mother Mrs. Jane Little, Westwood, Qld) as a Private S.N. 2148 in the 4th Pioneer Battalion AIF, WW1. On his WW1 Attestation Paper he noted his previous service in the Boer War.
He lived his life in the Westwood and Mount Morgan areas, near Rockhampton, where undertook the occupation of grazier.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 512; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).