A Collection of Medals to the Staffordshire Regiments

Pair: Major A. W. Hast, 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers), who was thanked by Lord Chelmsford for his service on the Zulu border in 1878

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (Sub. Lieut. A. W. Hast. 80th. Foot.); South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (Lieut. A. W. Hast. 80th. Foot.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Staffordshire Regiments.

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Arthur Wellesley Hast was born in Southampton in 1854 and was educated at Southampton College. He was mentioned in the Hampshire Advertiser of 20 June 1874 when successfully obtaining the 49th place for a direct commission into the British Army, and was appointed Sub-Lieutenant in the 80th Regiment of Foot. He was promoted Lieutenant on 28 February 1874, Captain on 1 April 1881, and Major on 27 January 1885. According to Hart’s Army List:

‘Major Hast served with a detachment of the 80th Regiment in the Perak Expedition in 1876. Trained, equipped and commanded a mule battery of 7-pounders on the Zulu border in 1878, for which he received the thanks of his Excellency Lieut. General Lord Chelmsford. Served throughout the left attack against Sekukuni, and had charge of two 6-pounder guns in the Column under Colonel Rowlands on the Swazi border in 1879, and during the invasion of Zululand and the engagement at Ulundi.’

Transferring to the 2nd South Staffordshire Regimental depot in August 1888, Hast retired from the Army in November 1890.