Aubrey Horotiu Black

Forenames

Aubrey Horotiu AWMM

Surname

Black AWMM

Also known as

• Aubrey Horotui Black AWMM
• Aubrey Horotui AWMM

Service number

• WWI 12/962 AWMM
• WWI 13/962 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Pikiao, Ngā Iwi o Te Arawa, Te Arawa, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Birth

10 Dec 1892 Military Personnel file

Place of birth

Maunganui Bluff, Northland.

Public - Rosalind - Direct descendant - 8 July 2024 - Family oral history

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 12 Roslyn Terrace, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Stanley Black, Dargaville, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 12/962 AWMM
• WWI 13/962 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Battalion, 6th (Hauraki) Company AWMM

Aubrey Black was the son of Alfred and Tuhi Black, of Dargaville.

Listed by Archives New Zealand as BLACK, Aubrey Horotiu - WW1 13/962 - Army and by CWGC and in Nominal Rolls with service number 12/962. Typo in Nominal Rolls name mispelt as Horotui

Next of Kin: Mrs T. Black, Dargaville, Nth Wairoa (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

8 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Northern Wairoa RSA, Dargaville AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276312
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/679767/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/679767
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 57
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.