Alan Haig-Brown (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Roderick Haig-Brown[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 6 September 1877 | ||
| Place of birth | Godalming, England | ||
| Date of death | 25 March 1918 (aged 40)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Pas-de-Calais, France[2] | ||
| Playing position | Outside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1895 | Old Carthusians | ||
| 1898–1899 | Cambridge University | ||
| Corinthian | |||
| 1901–1903 | Tottenham Hotspur | 4 | |
| 1903 | Old Carthusians | ||
| Worthing | |||
| Brighton & Hove Albion | |||
| Shoreham | |||
| Brighton & Hove Albion | |||
| 1905 | Clapton Orient | 4 | (1) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
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.[3] He was also an amateur football outside right who played in the Football League for Clapton Orient.[1]
Early life
He was the son of William Haig Brown, headmaster of Charterhouse School, where he was born on 6 September 1877. He was educated was educated at the Dragon School and Charterhouse School. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1896, graduating B.A. in 1899, in the Classical Tripos, and was awarded a blue. In 1899, he was appointed Assistant Master at Lancing College.[4][5]
Army career
Haig-Brown's army career began at Lancing College in 1906 as a lieutenant in the Lancing Officers' Training Corps, receiving a promotion to captain before the end of the year.[4] In 1908 his commission was transferred to the Territorial Army.[4] Haig-Brown commanded the Lancing Officers' Training Corps until 1915, by which time the British Army was fighting in the First World War.[4] 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.[4] Haig-Brown was appointed a temporary lieutenant colonel in September 1916 and given command of the battalion.[4] He saw active service on the Western and Italian fronts between 1916 and 1918, was mentioned in dispatches twice and awarded the Distinguished Service Order.[4] Haig-Brown was killed near the Bapaume-Sapignies road, France on 25 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive.[4] He was buried Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension.[2]
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).[4]
Personal life
Haig-Brown had a wife, a son (Roderick Haig-Brown) and two daughters.[4]
References
- 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 121. ISBN 190589161X.
- 1 2 3 "CWGC - Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ↑ "Stratton Dorset". www.strattondorset.com. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Lancing College War Memorial". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ↑ "Brown or Haig-Brown, Alan Roderick (BRWN896AR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.