Major General Philip Sidney Whitcombe (3 October 1893 – 9 August 1989) was an English cricketer active from 1922 to 1931 who played for Essex and in India. He was born in Windsor, Berkshire, and died in Hindhead, Surrey. He appeared in four first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast medium pace. He scored 81 runs with a highest score of 32 * and took no wickets.Philip Whitcombe at CricketArchive
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Philip Arthur Whitcombe Philip Arthur Whitcombe (23 April 1923 − 11 August 2015) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in England from 1947 to 1960. Life and career Whitcombe's father, Major-General Philip Sidney Whitcombe, had played some first- ...

was also a first-class cricketer. ''Quoted from Nick Smart, Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War, p. 331'' "The son of the Bishop of Colchester, Whitcombe was educated at

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and was a reserve officer with the Durham Light Infantry in 1914. Transferring to the Army Service Corps, his First War service was in France. Married in 1919, Whitcombe, a keen games player, played cricket for Essex and the army in the early 1920s. He attended the

Staff College, Camberley Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, was a staff college for the British Army and the presidency armies of British India (later merged to form the Indian Army). It had its origins in the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, founded in 1799, which i ...

, 1925–1926, served in India 1928–1929 and was deputy assistant general, Northern Command, 1934–1936. A staff officer at the War Office 1936–1938, he was a

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in 1939.

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after the campaign in France and Flanders, in which he served as deputy assistant of supplies and transport with the BEF, Whitcombe was assistant adjutant and QMG in

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1940–1941 and brigadier i/c administration 1941–1942. Deputy adjutant and QMG with British troops in Northern Ireland 1942–1943, he was major general i/c administration Eastern Command 1943–1947 Appointed CB in 1944 and retired from the army in 1947, Whitcombe, a member of the MCC, was a JP in Wiltshire from 1948."

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