Robert Crombie


Robert Creswell Crombie was a male athlete who competed for England.

Athletics career

A commercial artist by trade, he was affiliated with the Mitcham Athletic Club,
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.