Graeme Buxton AWMM

Black AWMM

G. B. Black AWMM

Vietnam 35314 AWMM

Male AWMM

12 June 1935 Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 AWMM

Army AWMM

Vietnam 35314 AWMM

• British Empire Medal (BEM) AWMM
  NZ Gazette Number 53 dated 12 September 1966 CITATION Staff Sergeant Black has held the appointment of Battery Quarter Master Sergeant (BQMS) in 161 Field Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery, throughout his tour in the Republic of Vietnam. As Battery Quarter Master Sergeant, Staff Sergeant Black has been called upon to cope with problems of considerable magnitude. 161 Field Battery is organised on light scales and has only the minimum of men necessary to function in a normal operational setting. The conditions under which 161 Field battery serve are unique however. The Battery is independent, has three separate national supply systems, is remote from its New Zealand superior headquarters and is frequently called upon to deploy an operational group many miles from its base. These factors call for the very highest standards of supply flexibility and efficiency. The fact that 161 Field Battery has proved itself to be thus flexible and constantly prepared is due to a great extent to the untiring efforts of Staff Sergeant Black. By his initiative, tenacity, personality and unselfish devotion to duty, far above that normally expected of a non-commissioned officer, he has assured, where humanly possible that the Battery is kept properly supplied. The example set by Staff Sergeant Black has been in keeping with the highest traditions of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit and the New Zealand Army. Notes to Citation: Enlisted Posted to South Vietnam Discharged AWMM
• New Zealand Operational Service Medal AWMM
• Vietnam Medal AWMM
• New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Warlike) (Vietnam clasp) AWMM

Vietnam Staff Sergeant Ministry for Culture and Heritage Royal New Zealand Artillery, 161 Battery AWMM 1st Australian Task Force AWMM

3 August 2019 Ministry for Culture and Heritage

3 August 2019 Public - Mike - Researcher - 6 August 2019 - Newspaper and Research

Tauranga, New Zealand Public - Mike - Researcher - 6 August 2019 - Newspaper and Research

Ashes laid to rest at Mangatu Urupa on Saturday, August 10 Public - Mike - Researcher - 6 August 2019 - Newspaper and Research

BLACK, Graeme Buxton
(aka Jack Black):
K35314, Captain, Royal New Zealand Artillery, Regular Force. 161 Battery. South Vietnam. British Empire Medal. Passed away on Saturday, August 3rd, 2019, after a long battle. Loved husband of Georgie; father of Jacky, Adrianne, Candy, and Connie; father-in-law of Nigel, Neil, Bud and Percy; G/dad of Cleo, William & Tara, Ariel & Delane, Halen & Mell, Iria, Reegan & Cameron, Tevyn & Dylan, Jessica, Tallara and Dylan; Grangran to Malakai, Wiremu, Kalayah and Tyson. Funeral will be held at 11.00am, on Wednesday (Tomorrow), August 7th, at Legacy Gardens, 53 Te Okuroa Road, Papamoa. Dad's ashes will then be laid to rest with our Mum/Nan at Mangatu Urupa on Saturday, August 10th.

"I shall not pass through this world but once, any good thing I may do, or kindness show, to any human being let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again" Public - Mike - Researcher - 6 August 2019 - Newspaper and Research

• New Zealand's Vietnam War Veterans. Personal page
  http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/veteran/ssgt-gb-black
  Sources Used
• Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. New Zealand History online website.
  http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/
  Further Reference
• Australia's Vietnam War
  https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
  Further Reference

• Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co. AWMM
• Hall, C. (2014). No front line : inside stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War. Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Books. AWMM
• This record was created from data kindly provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. AWMM