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]
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 was educated at Dragon School, Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in Classical Tripos and being awarded a blue.[4] In 1899, he was appointed Assistant Master at Lancing College.[4] Haig-Brown had a wife, a son 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 11 "Lancing College War Memorial". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.