BLACK, Eustace Couper
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
| Born: | Norwood, South Australia , 28 February 1886 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Prince Alfred College, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Stroke, Adelaide, South Australia , 12 November 1971, aged 85 years |
| Cemetery: |
Barmera Cemetery, South Australia Upper Murray Garden of Memory |
| Memorials: | Kent Town Prince Alfred College Great War Honour Roll, North Adelaide Christ Church Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Captain, Officer, Unspecified British Units |
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Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922
Name Eustace Couper Black
Birth Date 28 Feb. 1886
Birth Place Norwood
Registration Place Norwood, South Australia, Australia
Father John McConnell Black
Mother Alice Jane Denford
Page number 377
Volume Number 369
Biography contributed
Eustace Couper Black, the son of the eminent South Australian botanist, John McConnell Black, was educated in state schools and Prince Alfred College before graduating in medicine at Adelaide University in 1910. He was appointed in 1911 to the position of Resident Medical Officer at the Adelaide Hospital. He resigned early in 1912 and travelled to the UK to study at the Royal College of Surgeons. With the outbreak of World War 1 he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France from 1914 to 1917. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1915. In 1917 and 1918 he served in East Africa as commanding officer of a field ambulance unit. He met and married his wife, Julia Dixon, in England during the war and returned with her to Adelaide in 1920. He became the General Practitioner for the town of Spalding, South Australia, and started the Spalding Hospital. He was subsequently employed as a lecturer at the University of Adelaide and anaesthetist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Adelaide Children's Hospital. He was employed as the Medical Officer with the South Australian Railways from 1940 until his retired in 1951.
Biography contributed by Di Barrie
Obituary from "The Old Contemptible" Association Magazine, No 456 January 1972.
Page 11.
BLACK, E.C. Adelaide Branch, formerly Captain R.A.M.C. Died 12 November 1971, aged 85 years. Branch represented at the Funeral.
Page 13.
EUSTACE COUPER BLACK, B.A., M.B., B.S.
An Australian Doctor who happened to be in England at the outbreak of the 1914 War. He immediately reported to the War Office and was Commissioned in the R.A.M.C. Initially he was Regimental Medical Officer to the 13th Battalion Royal Scots and later the 7th Battalion Royal Scots. Then to No 2 General Hospital, Le Havre. After that he was appointed R.M.O. to the 2nd/3rd Gurkha Rifles, Meert Division, then fighting in France. His next appointment was to the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry, a Scottish Regiment serving with the Lahore Division.
Then to the 1st Battalion Cameronians.
Captain Couper Black's next move was Medical Officer in charge of Troops in H.M. Transport "Anglo-Egyptian" to Dar-Es-Salaam. Then he served with the West African Field Ambulance in German and Portuguese East Africa. By this time hostilities were over and Captain Couper Balck R.A.M.C. disembarked at Southampton after a continuous and strenuous period of Active Service in several Theatres of war.
The Old Contemptibles of South Australia were proud to have him as a member.
29 November 1971
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