Reginald Arthur Hind MM & Bar (SN 3275) born in Melbourne, was an 18 year old schoolboy when he enlisted in Ballarat on March 9th 1915. He embarked from Melbourne aboard the Ajana on June 4th and by late August he was serving with the 6th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli. After Gallipoli, promoted to Corporal, he arrived in France in late March 1916 and in August he was awarded a Military Medal ‘For great gallantry as a stretcher bearer under heavy fire and continuing at work practically bare foot. During the attack at Pozieres he rescued a man from the danger area of a gas barrage and a few minutes later dressed and removed the same man and two stretcher bearers wounded by shrapnel. His conduct has already been brought to notice at ANZAC.’ Just a month later he was reprimanded for failing to stop a disturbance and arrest those involved. He was awarded a Bar to his Military Medal in October 1917 for gallantry at Polygon Wood, then in November he was wounded in action suffering multiple shrapnel wounds. He was evacuated to hospital in England before being returned to Australia aboard the Orontes. He disembarked on May 10th 1918 and was discharged medically unfit on October 10th.

His brother Henry also served in the AIF and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Reg A. Hind.