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Alan Haig-Brown (footballer)
British Army officer and author (1877–1918) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alan Roderick Haig-Brown DSO (6 September 1877 – 25 March 1918) was a British Army officer and author who served as commander of the Lancing Officers' Training Corps and later fought in the First World War.[4][5] He was also an amateur football outside right and played in the Football League for Clapton Orient.[1]
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Early life
Haig-Brown was the son of William Haig Brown, headmaster of Charterhouse School, where he was born on 6 September 1877.[3] His elder sister was the headteacher Rosalind Brown.[6] After attending the Dragon School and Charterhouse School, Haig-Brown matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1896 and graduated with a B.A. in Classical Tripos in 1899.[3] He was awarded a blue in 1898 and 1899.[3] In 1899, Haig-Brown was appointed Assistant Master at Lancing College.[3][7]
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Army career
Haig-Brown's army career began at Lancing College in 1906, as a lieutenant in the Lancing Officers' Training Corps and by the end of the year, he had been promoted to captain.[3] In 1908, his commission was transferred to the Territorial Army.[3] Haig-Brown commanded the Lancing Officers' Training Corps until 1915, by which time the British Army was fighting in the First World War.[3] On 1 January 1916, he was transferred to the 23rd Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment on 1 January 1916, promoted to major and appointed second-in-command of the battalion.[3] Haig-Brown was appointed a temporary lieutenant colonel in September 1916 and given command of the battalion.[3]
Haig-Brown saw active service on the Western and Italian fronts between 1916 and 1918, was mentioned in dispatches twice and awarded the Distinguished Service Order.[3] He was killed by machine-gun fire whilst conducting a rear guard action on the Bapaume-Sapignies road, France on 25 March 1918, the first day of the German spring offensive.[3] Haig-Brown was buried Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension.[2]
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Author
Haig-Brown authored three books, Sporting Sonnets: And Other Verses (1903), My Game Book (1913) and The O. T. C. and the Great War (1915).[3]
Personal life
Haig-Brown had a wife, a son (Roderick Haig-Brown) and two daughters.[3]
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