Veteran Notes/Bio
Reginald Arthur Hast was born in Armidale and was educated at the Armidale Public School. As a single man and a telephone mechanic, he enlisted in the 30th Battallion on 27 July 1915. As a sapper in the 2nd Division Signals Company, aged 24 years, he died of wounds on 29 October 1917 at Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium. He was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium.