Hugh Haggard

Hugh Alfred Vernon Haggard, DSO, DSC (21 June 1908 – 17 November 1991) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded , a T-class submarine, during World War II. Truant was one of the most successful of Britain's undersea prowlers during that war. Background A member of the Haggard family, he was the only son of Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard and his wife Dorothy Booker Ellis Haggard, having been born on 21 June 1908 in Stock, Essex. His father was Commander-in-Chief of the America and West Indies Station. Hugh Haggard was the nephew of diplomat Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, who served as British Consul General at New York during World War II. He was also the grandnephew of prolific author Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who attained literary fame with his romances King Solomon's Mines and She: A History of Adventure. Naval career