Next of Kin plaque : Driver C T Black, 32 Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'CHARLES THOMAS BLACK'. The back for the plaque bears the mark of the Royal Arsenal Woolwich, 'W' within a circle.

Charles Thomas Black, born at Hindmarsh, South Australia, was a 31 year old grocer when he enlisted in the AIF on 27 August 1915. After initial training he was assigned as a driver to the horse transport section of 32 Battalion at the beginning of October.

The battalion sailed from Adelaide aboard HMAT A13 Katuna on 11 November and arrived in Egypt in the middle of December. In June 1916 it transferred to France for service on the Western Front. As a transport driver, Black did not participate directly in the battle of Fromelles on 19 July, in which his battalion suffered 718 casualties, nearly 90 per cent of its fighting strength, or in the battle of Polygon Wood in 1917.

Thomas Black was killed on 24 June 1918 by a large bomb dropped from a German aircraft, when he was a member of a party sent to collect rations from the 8th Brigade's supply dump. Sixteen men in the party were killed outright and eleven wounded. Black was initially buried at the Vaux-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery Extension. In 1920 his body was exhumed and reinterred at the Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery.

Black's wife, Florrie, received this commemorative plaque in 1922.