by Jeffry Babb
I do not wish to write an obituary for Hal Colebatch. That has already been done. On this, the first anniversary of his passing, I will seek to place Colebatch in the context of his life and times.
Hal was the son of Sir Hal Colebatch. Sir Hal was a renaissance man, who dragged himself up by his bootstraps. In his biography of his father, Steadfast Knight (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004), Hal traces the Colebatch line back almost to the Norman Conquest. The only notable a…
