In Memory Of

HAIG, EDWARD GORDON

Service Details
Age:
 33
Date of Birth:
 1907-09-22
Service No:
 X/1450
Rank:
 Company Quartermaster Serjeant
Unit:
 1st Bn.
Unit 2:
 attd. 2/1st Bn. King's African Rifles
Regiment:
 Rhodesia Regiment
Date of Death:
 1941-05-16
Cause of Death:
 Died of blackwater fever
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Grave 1.
Cemetery:
 KARONGA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Malawi
Additional Information
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. Husband of Mary "Mollie" Adelaide (nee Black later Allan). Born Paddington, London. Christened at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate on the 21 October 1907. Educated at Lancing College where he was in Fields House from January 1921 to December 1924. 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, Southern Rhodesia. Had a son Ian Edward born 11 July 1937. 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 1:50 p.m. on the 14 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 6 a.m. the next morning the battalion left for war service leaving him at the camp where he died the following day. Commemorated on the Compton and Shawford War Memorial in Hampshire and on the M.C.C. memorial at Lord's Cricket Ground.