"Dedicated to Lieut.-Col. Dollman and the 27th Battln", two songs Just a little scrap of paper and David (Belgium) and Goliath (Germany).

Daughter of John Felstead, a prominent English importer with a strong interest in music, Hilda was born in Adelaide in 17 February 1883.

1903 Hilda was Alto soloist for Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society concert also appeared with the Locomotive Band. 1905 popular Hilda was now featured by Charles Cawthorne in many concerts. By 1913 she was involved with Orpheus Society and  appeared in Mystic Pierrette at the Austral Gardens Fete in 1915. In 1915 Hilda wrote Just a Little Scrap of Paper, amongst other works, which she sang at the Orpheus Society concert for the Red Cross at the Exhibition Hall where nearly nineteen pounds were thrown onto the platform.
Late October 1915 Unley Town Hall programmed the concert Farewell to Miss Hilda Felstead, prior to her Melbourne opening with Brennan’s circuit. During 1917 Hilda’s Adelaide performances included Remember Anzac: Grand Concert, and Orpheus Society’s Grand Trench Comforts concert.

In 1918 she married Capt. Claude Martin Flanders in Madras before working at the Royal College of Music, London. From “The Residence, Crawford Market, Bombay” 1924 Hilda visited Adelaide.1933 she sent Indian dolls from Bombay to a fundraiser for the Kuitpo colony, then visited again in 1950.

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