Leonard George ("Toby") Colbeck (1 January 1884 – 3 January 1918) was an English

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er active from 1905–14, playing for

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. He was born in South Harrow. He died off the

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in during

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, in which he had been awarded the

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.Toby Colbeck at ESPNcricinfo
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1884 births 1918 deaths English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Europeans cricketers British military personnel killed in World War I British Army personnel of World War I Royal Field Artillery officers Recipients of the Military Cross 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-cricket-bio-1880s-stub