George Harry Black

Forenames

George Harry AWMM

Surname

Black AWMM

Service number

• WWI 11/2392 AWMM
• WWI 180006 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

29 May 1885 Public Source

Date of birth

29th May 1883

Public - Robert (Bob) Ernest Heathcote - Other relative - 31 January 2016 - Akaroa newspaper, 1st June 1993. Military records

Place of birth

Akaroa

Public - Robert (Bob) Ernest Heathcote - Other relative - 31 January 2016 - Akaroa newspaper, 1st June 1993

Birth notes

Son of Greacon Joseph BLACK

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2024 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

Arakihi Station
Tolaga Bay

Public - Robert (Bob) Ernest Heathcote - Other relative - 31 January 2016 - Family history - address on enlistment - war records

Post war occupation

Killed

Public - Robert (Bob) Ernest Heathcote - Other relative - 31 January 2016 - self explanatory

Next of kin

• Mrs G.H. Black (wife), care of Mrs Allan Straus, Awapuni, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Dorothie Margaret Black (nee Strang) c/o Mrs Allan Strang, Awapuni, Palmerston North, New ZEaland
  Public - Robert (Bob) Ernest Heathcote - Other relative - 31 January 2016 - War records...this is to correct the spelling of Dorothie's maiden name from Staus to Strang

Relationship status

• 1916 George H BLACK married Dorothy STRANG in Palmerston North
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2024 - Military Record
• George was my great uncle. His only surviving brother (Ernest Richard Black) was my grandfather
  Public - Robert (Bob) Ernest Heathcote - Other relative - 31 January 2016 - selof explanatory

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 11/2392 AWMM
• WWI 180006 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Sheep farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 01 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 49 or HMNZT 50 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 11th Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles, B Squadron AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

George Harry Black was the husband of Mrs. D. M. Ashford (formerly Black), of 33, Upper Featherston Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs D. M. Ashford, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

14 Jul 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM II. E. 27. AWMM

Obituary

LIEUT G. H. BLACK'S GALLANT DEATH - WHILST ASSISTING WOUNDED BACK.
The public of this district will learn with very deep regret that private advice has been received by Mr & Mrs G J Black, of Kaiti, that one of their two sons at the war, Lieut. G. H. Black, has been killed in action.
On Friday, Mr Black received a cable from his other son, Lieut. E R Black, that George was reported missing & in Saturday’s casualty list this information was officially confirmed. Lieut E R Black is just out of hospital in London, & it is presumed that the news reached him through some of his brother George’s companions, who had been wounded & sent back to England. On Saturday Lt E R.Black sent a further message to his parents as follows:
George was killed 14th July, while assisting wounded back.” It is doubtless the position that the operations in the course of which Lieut George Black was killed were those described by Malcolm Ross in his special news cable under date July I8 in which, inter alia, he stated “An Otago regiment was less lucky, being caught by enemy fire in No Man's Land, but the splendid bravery of the officers & men made amends. Captain Jolly was wounded, & refused to go on a stretcher while his men were needing attention. With great gallantry he carried on & was subsequently killed. His body was located at dawn near our parapet & was brought in under darkness of night.
The late. Lieut. Black left Gisborne for camp in July of last year, being attached to the 8th Reinforcements. After gaining his commission as 2nd Lieut he was, on account of his splendid qualifications in regard to drilling kept back until the 11th Refmts, left. He was adjutant of Troopship 49. On arrival in Egypt he applied to be transferred to the regiment in which his brother was serving, the Otago Infantry, & his request was acceded to. The regiment was soon afterwards ordered to France. Lieut George Black was very well known & greatly esteemed & the news of his death will come as a great shock

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2024 - KILLED IN ACTION.
GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLVII, ISSUE 4299, 24 JULY 1916, PAGE 4

Memorial name

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/R7879535
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276342
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/275773/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/275773
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  28: 2
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.