Australia's highest scoring ace joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915. Assigned to Dunkirk in late June of 1916, he flew the Bristol Scout and the Sopwith 1½ Strutter, participating in several bombing missions before joining 8 Naval Squadron on October 26, 1916. Scoring his first four victories while flying the Sopwith Pup, his squadron was re-equipped with Sopwith Triplanes in the spring of 1917. With this aircraft, Little scored 24 victories before his Triplane was replaced with a Sopwith Camel. Credited with 19 more victories, he was killed in action attempting to shoot down a Gotha bomber on a night raid.
