Robert Creswell Crombie (c. 1911 – May 1936)"Lightning Flash Kills Athlete", Daily Mirror (May 19, 1936), p. 1."Athlete Dead in Woods", Liverpool Daily Post (May 19, 1936), p. 1. was a male athlete who competed for England.
Athletics career A commercial artist by trade, he was affiliated with the Mitcham Athletic Club,"England's Athletes", Sunday Mirror (July 22, 1934), p. 39.
He represented England at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, where he competed in the long jump event, winning a X medal.
On May 17, 1936, Crombie went missing while walking with friends in Netley Woods near Guildford, where he was "believed to have been struck by lightning while sheltering beneath a tree"; he was found dead on May 19, at age 25.
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