Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Lt Maurice Little Way Lt. Edwin Maurice Little (1893-1938) served with 15Bn AIF at Gallipoli in 1915. At Quinn's Point he was severely injured, permanently blinded and became a partial amputee. A Corinda resident, Maurice founded the Sherwood RSL Sub Branch and served as its first President from 1919-25. On 28 November 1920, Maurice Little unveiled the memorial in Graceville Memorial Park. He is remembered as a highly regarded local hero.

DEATH OF LIEUT.
E. M. LITTLE
ABROAD
The death occurred In Bromley, England, on August 10, of Lieutenant E. Maurice Little, a son of Rev. W. Little, of Eagle Junction. The late Mr. Little, who was born in Barcaldine on July 6, 1803, was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School. He joined the Department of Public Instruction as a teacher, and taught at the old Normal School and at Gladstone,  from which town he enlisted in September, 1914. At Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, he suffered injuries which resulted in the loss of his sight and right arm, and left his left leg stiff.  Despite these handicaps he was of a cheerful disposition.
While being treated in London for his injuries, he met and married Miss Bessie Crowther, a medical missionary of the Church of England Missionary Society, who was on furlough  at the time, and who nursed him through the major part of his illness. The late Mr. Little returned to Brisbane with his wife in 1915, and lived in Brisbane for some years, during
which, time he stood in the Nationalist interests for the Bremer electorate in 1918. He lived in Corinda for about ten years, and then returned to England, where he studied economics at Oxford University for three years. Later he came back lo Australia, living in Sydney for some years, and subsequently returned to the Old Country. While in Brisbane  he was president of the Sherwood Returned Soldiers' Club, and was very well known to Diggers of Queensland.
His chief occupation for some years was story writing, and a number of his stories were published in The "Queenslander."
The late Mr. Little is survived by his wife, his father, three brothers. Arnold and Arthur of Brisbane, and Leslie, of Rockhampton, and a sister, Alice.