Notebook of Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, 1914

Little, Vivian Agincourt Spence (Chaplain)

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Places	Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Albany Oceania: German New Guinea Oceania: German New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago Oceania: German New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, New Pomerania, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Herbertshohe Oceans: Indian Ocean, Cocos Keeling Islands
Accession Number	RCDIG0001055
Collection number	PR03295
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	1
Object type	Notebook
Physical description	36 Image/s captured
Maker	Little, Vivian Agincourt Spence
Date made	1914
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Description

Notebook relating to the First World War service of Chaplain Vivian Agincourt Spence Little, Royal Australian Navy. This notebook contains entries relating to Little’s service on HMAS Sydney and includes: various sketch maps, including one of the route that HMAS Sydney took through Saint George’s Channel in the Bismarck Archipelago whilst serving in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF); a plan of the first Australian Imperial Force (AIF) convoy which HMAS Sydney escorted; Little’s experiences at sea on HMAS Sydney from its arrival in Albany on 31 October 1914 until the engagement with SMS Emden; a detailed account of the engagement between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden on 9 November 1914 off the Cocos Islands and the aftermath of the battle. It is unknown where the notebook and its contents were written and compiled but much of it is likely to have been made whilst Little was at sea in 1914.