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Personal data

• Name BLACK
• Initials SH
• First name SAMUEL HENRY
• Place of birth Upotipotpon
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Benalla, Victoria
• Family Son of William John and Euphemia Black, of Upotipotpon, Benalla, Victoria, Australia.
• Profession Farmer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 4 March 1916, Melbourne, Victoria
• Service number 263
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 10th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
• Division - Brigade 10th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked Melbourne 16 August 1916; to France 22 November 1917

Death

• Wounded 4 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of multiple shrapnel wounds, n°11 CCS
• Date of death 5 October 1917
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - G - 1A

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