Signaller Reginald Biggs (1897-1995) was nicknamed "Private Ashmead" after the war correspondent Ashmead Bartlett because Biggs had been a cadet journalist on the Examiner (Launceston) prior to enlisting. Biggs entered Claremont camp on 1 March 1916 for basic training and departed for the battlefield on 2 July 1916 where he served with the 40th Battalion.;;He returned to Launceston in 1919 and worked as a journalist for the Examiner until 1929, and for Western Australian newspapers from 1930 until the 1940s. He returned to Tasmania in 1947.