Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Mr. Howard F. Hall, the winner of the first prize for bass solo at the Ballarat musical competitions, is the second son of Mr. C. E. Hall, of Rundle street. He dis played musical ability at an early age, when a lad at Way College, and was encouraged to study by the late E. B. Haslam, one of the masters, who was quite a vocal enthusiast. Later, Mr. Hall studied for a little while under Mr. E. Harold Davies, Mus. Bae, but afterwards took lessons from Mr. W. R. Pybus, his present ins true tar. He won the first prize for bass solo at the Hindmarsh Square Church Choir competitions, held in November, 1901, out of a number of prominent local singers, and was selected to fill Mr. Wallace Brownlow's place at the benefit concert given to tlrat gentleman at the Adelaide Town Hall, when the popular actor was stricken down with a sudden illness. Mr. Hall had an experience of fighting in South Africa as a member of the fourth contingent—the Imperial Bushmen— and was wounded in the foot by a bullet at the famous battle of Bethlehem.