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The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)

Solomon Black, N.Z.C

Solomon Black, N.Z.C.

Solomon Black, N.Z.C.

Constable Black (No. 1 Division Armed Constabulary) was awarded the New Zealand Cross for his determined gallantry in holding, with a few comrades, the precipitous ridge in rear of Ngatapa hill fort, 1869. Benjamin Biddle, of Whakatane, also received the Cross for that service.
(See page 278.)