While in the services he composed at least a hundred marches for military band,[2] and has been credited with 300 compositions over his lifetime.
He was, by invitation, chief judge at the South Street Competitions in Ballarat, Victoria in 1902, subsequently visiting Sydney and Adelaide.
[5] He has been credited as the greatest single influence on the standard of Australian brass band performance.
His remains were carried to Edmonton cemetery, accompanied by a massed band playing the "Dead March" from Saul and "Abide with Me", and interred to the strains of the hymns "Deep Harmony" and "The Angels' Song", Hume's last composition.
[6] Instrumentalist, composer, arranger, adjudicator, he will for ever be remembered as the greatest figure ever known in the brass band world.