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| Company Quartermaster Sergeant Edward Gordon HAIG (X/1450) | |
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1st Battalion Rhodesia Regiment attached to the 2/1st Battalion King’s African Rifles Date of birth: 22nd September 1907 Date of death: 16th May 1941 Died aged 33 Buried at Karonga War Cemetery, Malawi Grave 1 |
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| Edward Gordon Haig was born at Paddington in London on the 22nd of September 1907 the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Edward Haig, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and Lottie Everilda (nee Dundas) Haig of Long Acre, Compton, Winchester in Hampshire. He was christened at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate on the 21st of October 1907. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Fields House from January 1921 to December 1924. He was the winner of the Cadet Shooting competition in 1921 and was a member of the Ashburton Team in 1922. On leaving school he became a farmer at “Bermersyde”, Arcturas near Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia. He was married to Mary "Mollie" Adelaide (nee Black later Allan); they had a son Ian Edward born on the 11th of July 1937. He was a member of the M.C.C. He had been serving in Malawi for three months when he contracted blackwater fever while the battalion were at Zombwe near Ekwendeni, Nyasaland. At 1.50pm on the 14th of May 1941 DH80A Puss Moth G-ABGT, piloted by Captain Bartlett, arrived at the airstrip with Dr Skan who was to attend to Edward Haig. At 6am the next morning the battalion left for war service leaving him at the camp where he died the following day. He is commemorated on the Compton and Shawford war memorial in Hampshire and on the M.C.C. memorial at Lord's Cricket Ground. |
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