Charles Neil Newcombe was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er and footballer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 in 1910, and league football for Chesterfield F. C. and Rotherham Town F. C.. He was killed in action in the First World War.

Newcombe was born in Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth

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, the son of E. Percy G. Newcombe and Helen Ada L. Newcombe, later of Matlock. He was educated at Chesterfield

Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Its population is 70,260 , making it Derbyshire's largest town...

 School, where he was head boy.

Newcombe made a single first-class appearance for Derbyshire in the 1910 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1910

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1910 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty nine years. It was their sixteenth season in the County Championship and they won two matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table.-1910 season:Derbyshire played...

 against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 in May, when he hit wicket after 1 run in the first innings and was bowled out for a duck by Drake

Alonzo Drake

Alonzo Drake was an English first-class cricketer who played 157 matches for Yorkshire between 1909 and 1914...

 in the second. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow-medium bowler although he never bowled a first-class ball.

Newcombe played football for Creswell

Creswell, Derbyshire

Creswell is a village located in Bolsover, near Worksop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. It is best known for Creswell Crags and Creswell Model Village....

. He was a forward for Chesterfield F.C.

Chesterfield F.C.

Chesterfield Football Club is an English football club based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The club currently plays in Football League One, the third tier of English football. Despite being the fourth oldest Football League club in England, they have spent most of their existence in the lower...

 in the 1910-1911, and 1911-1912 seasons. He subsequently went to Rotherham Town F. C..

Newcombe served in the First World War in the 7th Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. The regiment's traditions and history are now maintained by The Rifles.-The 51st Foot:...

 as a lieutenant and was killed in action at Fleuraix in France. He was buried at Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier

Bois-Grenier

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