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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Armidale
• Land New South Wales, Australia
• Last residence Armidale
• Family Son of Walter and Lucy Anne Hast; his brother Thomas Harold, served in the same unit and placed the wartime cross on his grave, with the inscription 'In loving memory of my dear brother'; sister M. E. Hast
• Profession Telephone mechanic
• Extra info Commemorated in the Liber Vitae of Talbot House

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 22 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
• Service number 76
• Rank Sapper
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal
• Regiment and unit 2nd Signals Coy. Australian Engineers
• Other data related to military career Embarked Sydney 9 November 1915; to France March 1916

Death

• Wounded 28 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds head, n°2 Canadian CCS
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - G - 11

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