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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, 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 a member of the 2nd Football XI in 1924 and won House Colours for Football and Cricket. He served as a Lance Corporal in the Officer Training Corps and was the winner of the Cadet Shooting competition in 1921. He 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. Following the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Rhodesia Regiment and was attached to the 2/1st King |
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