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 Commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department. RARO 26/5/1939. Embodied 24/8/1939. Posted to 70th Infantry Brigade September 1939. Attached to 12th Bn DLI. Attached 1 TS 1/2/1940 on 12th Battalion being transferred to the Corps of the Black Watch. Served B.E.F. Evacuated from either Boulogne or Calais. Served Iceland. Attached to 11th Bn DLI 1/6/1942. With 11th DLI on disbandment August 1944. Attached to 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 Battalion HQ.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Chaplain/Padre.
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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