Charles Newcombe
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| Full name | Charles Neil Newcombe[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 March 1891 Great Yarmouth, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 December 1915 (aged 24)[1] Fleurbaix, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium slow bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1910 | Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 26 May 1910 Derbyshire v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charles Neil Newcombe (16 March 1891 – 27 December 1915) was an English cricketer and footballer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1910 and league football for Chesterfield Town and Rotherham Town. He was killed in action in the First World War.[2]
Newcombe was born in Great Yarmouth, the son of E. Percy G. Newcombe and Helen Ada L. Newcombe, later of Matlock. He was educated at Chesterfield School, where he was head boy.
Newcombe made a single first-class appearance for Derbyshire in the 1910 season against Yorkshire in May, when he hit wicket after 1 run in the first innings and was bowled out for a duck by Drake in the second. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow-medium bowler although he never bowled a first-class ball.[1]
Newcombe played football for Creswell. He was a forward for Chesterfield Town in the 1910–11 and 1911–12 seasons.[3] He subsequently went to Rotherham Town.[3]
Newcombe served in the First World War in the 7th Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as a lieutenant and was killed in action at Fleurbaix in France.[1][4] He was buried at Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 4 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Chesterfield FC: Player-based information – 1909–1917". Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "Old Cestrefeldians in the Great War" (PDF). p. 16. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "Casualty". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 November 2018.