BLACK, Graeme Delamere
Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
4 Independent Company
Regiment/Corps:
South Lancashire
Service:
Army
Service Number:
106240
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Tuesday, May 9, 1911
Died :
Friday, October 23, 1942
Executed
Age:
31
Cemetery/Memorial:
Captain Graeme Black DSO, MC, was executed whilst a Prisoner of War. He was one of the seven Commandos of No. 2 Commando who were captured after Operation Musketoon, and later executed under Hitler's Commando Execution Order, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Berlin, 1942.
- Military Cross in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in successful combined operations, against the enemy at Vaagso and Maaloy during which he was wounded.
- Distinguished Service Order in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in the field.
Sources
CWGC.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
CWGC.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
Vaagso - Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/2.
MC : London Gazette 35510, page 1506.
DSO : London Gazette 37349, page 5574.
MC : London Gazette 35510, page 1506.
DSO : London Gazette 37349, page 5574.
Report on the Nuremberg trials in the Birmingham Gazette 10 January 1946.
Primary Roll of Honour:
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
Archive pages :