Served with: 1st Bn. King’s Shropshire Light Infantry 1899-1900

3rd Bombay Light Infantry 1900-1901

3rd Gurkha Rifles 1901-1906

Russian Interpretership 1st Class 1904

On Special Plague Duty Burma May 1906

Appointed Assistant Commissioner Burma April 1907

Born Dublin Died 1930's Aged 89 in France as French Interpreter on H.Q. Staff Garhwal Brigade

1 s. Mark (b. 1970)

1 d. Victoria (b. 1971)

2. 24 April 1916 at Church of St. Anselm and Cecilia, London, to Isabel Norah Cecilia (b. 1892 d. 1980) daughter of Charles Joseph McDermott and Margaret Wishart McDermott (nee Aitken). They had three daughters:

Margaret (Peggy) Mona

b. Burma 1917 d. England 1994

She married:

Major Peter Stephenson in 1939 (d. Korea 1950). No children.

Lt. Com. B.H. Fairley RN in 1954.

THOMAS NEWCOMBE (1787-1832) m. 1806 = MARY LISTER

He started and ran a Transport Service between

London & Edinburgh. The London Terminus

Was at Hatchetts, Picadilly.

They had 11 children, the 6th, a son, was:

WILLIAM LISTER NEWCOMBE born in = ELIZA JANE RYMER b. 3/12/16

Fossgate, York on 25/5/1817 3rd daughter of Peter & Ann Rymer

Of St. Saviour’s Place, York

He became Actg. General Manager of the Midland

Rly from 1/10/57 to 4/4/60 in place of Sir James

Allport. He was apptd. Goods Manager on 14/7/68.

He retired on 21/3/87 & died on 2/11/02.

They had 14 children: the 3rd was:

EDWARD NEWCOMBE born in Fossgate, York = LOUISA MARY PRANGLEY

On 1/9/42. Educated Shrewsbury School. Became her two sisters were CLARA =

an M.I.C.E. & built the first railways in Japan. WILSON with two sons Alec &

Later was i/c the Rly extension in Wales. Duncan. NEE died unmarried but

Died in Bournemouth 17/1/86. helped to bring up her sister’s boys

They had 4 children: as below:

1. EDWARD OSBORN ARMSTRONG NEWCOMBE DSO b. 30/8/74 in Monastery = ANNA MARIA LAURA (NITA)

In Osaka Japan. Major R.E. Traffic Mgr COURTENAY

Sudan Govt Rlys. Then surveyed for Wagon

Lits in South Africa. Died 15/5/41.

2. STEWART FRANCIS NEWCOMBE DSO = ELSIE CHAKI 2nd daughter of

m. 1919 b. ’78. Colonel RE. (close associate M & Mme Chaki of Nice

of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ who, aged 22, They had 1 son & 1 daughter:

joined SFN in Palestine in 1913). Escaped STEWART LAWRENCE b. Cairo ‘20

p.o.w. from Turkey. C.R.E. Malta DIANA LOUIE b. Bedford ’21. Created

Life Baroness in 1972.

3. HARLEY NEWCOMBE b. 30/11/79 = They had one son: JAMES

Major in the Ghurkhas = NORAH MCDERMOTT: M. 1916

4. CLIFFORD HENRY NEWCOMBE = MURIEL MARY SCALE m. 1/1904

b. 22/6/76 in Japan. They had three sons: DYMOKE

Captain RA. D. 1913 LISTER (QV). JACK STEWART

b. ’09, in RAF, d. ’32. GORDON

CLIFFORD b. ’12, Fleet Air Arm,

Killed air collision of Alexandria ‘37

DYMOKE LISTER NEWCOMBE = GRETA MARY BELL JONES

b. 18/11/04 – Royal Tank Corps (‘24/’33) d. ’61. They had 1 daughter:

Ministry of Transport (’35-’53) Heathrow: LISA MARY

Civil Aviation & BAA (‘53/’73) Rtd.

LISA MARY NEWCOMBE b. 21/2/52.

Joined Jarrold Colour Publications, Norwich

In ’73. Now Editor.

I now solemnly declare my affections

To be unchangeably fixed on you.

Heaven grant us its blessing and if

Our union cannot be effected on earth

I trust and pray it will be in Heaven.

God’s will be done

Wm Lister Newcombe

York 24th Feby. 1837

Friday afternoon

Eliza be true

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Above is a copy of a missive written by my Great Grandfather, William Lister Newcombe, then aged 19, to Eliza Jane Rymer, aged 20. They were married a year later, on 1st June 1838. They had fourteen children!

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The original of the above is in the possession of Col. Stewart Newcombe’s son, Stewart Lawrence, my first cousin. He writes that "it is so faded that, although it is legible, it certainly cannot be photocopied because it should be exposed to light as little as possible".

D. Lister Newcombe 9th May 1978

Letters etc. from Jean F Low, of Atherton, California, to Dymoke Lister Newcombe, 1979

The Daily Colonist, [Victoria BC?], page 4, 11 January 1970

Nature, London, 20 December 1924