Craig Richard Newcombe Captain (Chaplain 4th Class) 95722
Personnel Entry
Name Craig Richard Newcombe
Army number 95722
Rank Captain - Chaplain 4th Class
Decorations M.C.
Date of birth 8/10/1908
Age 0
Unit Royal Army Chaplains' Department, RARO 26/5/1939, Embodied 24/8/1939, Posted to 70th Infantry Brigade September 1939, Attached 12th Bn DLI, Attached 1 TS 1/2/1940, B.E.F. Evacuated from Boulogne or Calais. Served Iceland. Attached 11th Bn DLI 1/6/1942. With 11th DLI on disbandment August 1944. Attached 30 Corps Troops REME Workshop. Senior Chaplain to a Division as at September 1944. Released from service 1945. Rector of Alfreton. Honorary Canon of Derby 1950. Ceased RARO liability on age grounds 8/10/1963, retained Hon rank of Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class.
Company/Battery Bn HQ
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Chaplain
Joined Brigade September 1939
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Death registered December 1978 - Chesterfield.
Home address Son of Very Reverend Herbert Newcombe, Dean of Kildare, County Kildare. Educated Haileybury and Trinity College Dublin (MA 1931). Married 1938 Grace, daughter of J E Walton of Birmingham.
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