Bobby Black (rugby union)
Full name | Robert Stanley Black | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 24 August 1893||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Arrowtown, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 21 September 1916 23) | (aged||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Somme, France | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
School | Otago Boys' High School | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Bank clerk | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career | |||||||||||||||||
Position | First five-eighth | ||||||||||||||||
New Zealand No. | 211 | ||||||||||||||||
Provincial/State sides | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) | ||||||||||||||
1911–14, 1915 1914 |
Otago Buller |
12 2 |
(0) | ||||||||||||||
National team(s) | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) | ||||||||||||||
1914 | New Zealand | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Military career
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Robert Stanley "Bobby" Black (24 August 1893 – 21 September 1916) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A first five-eighth, Black represented Otago and Buller at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1914 tour of Australia. He played six matches for the All Blacks on that tour, including one international.[2]
Black enlisted in the Otago Mounted Rifles in November 1915 and, after transferring to the Canterbury Regiment, saw active service in the Battle of the Somme.[2] He was killed in action on 21 September 1916,[1] and he is memorialised on the Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial,[3] which commemorates over 1200 New Zealand soldiers who died in the Battles of the Somme in 1916 for whom there is no known grave.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Black, Robert Stanley - WWi 9/2048 - Army". Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- 1 2 Knight, Lindsay. "Bobby Black". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ↑ "Casualty details: Black, Robert Stanley". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ↑ "Cemetery details: Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2015.