....read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... erton.htmlGeorge Chesterton made his living as a geography teacher and master in charge of cricket at his old school, Malvern College; but for much of the 1950s, at the beginning of the summer holidays he would make himself available for Worcestershire, playing for the county 47 times between 1950 and 1957 and taking 263 wickets at an average of 22.78 . He then turned out for nine more years for MCC.
On leaving school he enlisted in the RAF and trained as a pilot in Canada. He was then commissioned and, after a brief spell with No 299 Squadron, converted to the Stirling bomber, which had been modified to carry troops and tow gliders.
Attached to No 190 Squadron, Chesterton dropped supplies to the French Resistance in preparation for D-Day. On the night of June 5/6 1944, No 190 dropped paratroopers, then returned to Normandy towing gliders. Chesterton also took part in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden, at Arnhem. Towing gliders, the squadron lost 11 aircraft in five days, Chesterton later describing the operation as a “cauldron of hell”. In January 1945 he transferred to another Stirling squadron, No 242, operated by Transport Command
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