Charles Newcombe

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 played for a number of football clubs, including Glossop, Chesterfield Town, Manchester United and Rotherham Town.

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.

[3] After a brief spell at Manchester United, he made two Football League appearances for Glossop during the 1913/14 season, before finishing his career at Tibshelf Colliery.

[4] Newcombe served in the First World War with the 7th (Servicee Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as a lieutenant and was killed in action at Fleurbaix in France.