George Chesterton - Telegraph 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 . On leaving the RAF as a flight lieutenant in November 1946, he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Geography and won a cricket Blue in 1949. He was Oxford's leading wicket taker that season, with 46 victims - among them the great Tom Graveney, whom he dismissed twice in one match. In the following season, his first in county cricket, Chesterton headed Worcestershire's bowling averages. Chesterton returned to his old school, in 1950, as geography master and to run the cricket. As a housemaster from 1961 to 1976, he scorned corporal punishment. He was Second Master from 1973 to 1982, and served as acting Headmaster for one term in 1982 during an interregnum. His first-class cricket career continued until 1966 with appearances for MCC . In his final full season he returned his career-best bowling figures (seven for 14), for MCC against Ireland. Chesterton did his utmost to promote youth cricket, and in 1991 founded the Chesterton Cup for schools across the Midlands. For eight years he was The Times's schools sports correspondent. He was president of Worcestershire CCC (1990-93). For his service as chairman and president of Malvern Civic Society (1985-2011) he was appointed MBE, receiving his award from the Queen only a fortnight before his death. He wrote a history of Malvern College, and in retirement lived in a house behind the school's tennis courts. George Chesterton married, in 1943, Kathleen Dominey. She died in 1980, and he married secondly, in 1981, Vanessa Clegg, who survives him with a son and a daughter of his first marriage. George Chesterton, born July 15 1922, died November 3 2012