Alan Haig-Brown (footballer)
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 Haig-Brown while with Old Carthusians in 1903 | |||
| 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 | near Bapaume, France[3] | ||
| Position | Outside right | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1895–1896 | Charterhouse School | ||
| 1896–1899 | Cambridge University | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1900 | Godalming | ||
| Old Carthusians | |||
| –1901 | Corinthian | ||
| 1901–1903 | Tottenham Hotspur | 4 | |
| 1903 | Old Carthusians | ||
| 1903 | Clapton Orient | ||
| 1903–1906 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
| Worthing | |||
| Shoreham | |||
| 1906 | Clapton Orient | 4 | (1) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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]
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]
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]
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]
