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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = George David Chetwode
| image =
| birth_date = 24 August 1914
| birth_place = [[Mayfair]], London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|10|4|1914|8|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Upper Slaughter]], [[Gloucestershire]], England
| father = [[George Chetwode]]
| spouse = Lady Willa Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
| children = 6
| module = {{infobox cricketer
| embed = yes
| country = England
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1938/39
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 7
| bat avg1 = 3.50
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 6
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 20 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/george-chetwode-27720 Cricinfo
| module = {{infobox military person
| embed = yes
| allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch = {{army|United Kingdom}}
| unit = [[Coldstream Guards]]
| service_years = 1934–1948
| battles = [[World War II]]
| rank = [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]]
}}
}}
}}

'''George David Chetwode''' {{post-nominals|MBE}} (24 August 1914 – 4 October 1999) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Army]].

The son of [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] [[George Chetwode|Sir George Chetwode]],<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19461010/096/0004 |title=Lord Minto's daughter |work=[[The Scotsman]] |location=[[Edinburgh]] |page=11 |date=10 October 1946 |access-date=20 December 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> he was born at [[Mayfair]] in August 1914. He attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College at Sandhurst]], graduating from there into the [[Coldstream Guards]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in August 1934,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34083|date=31 August 1934|page=5523}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in August 1937.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34431|date=31 August 1937|page=5510}}</ref> He was seconded to [[British India]] in September 1937 to be ''[[aide-de-camp]]'' to the [[List of governors of Bombay Presidency|Governor of the Bombay Presidency]], the [[Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough|Earl of Scarbrough]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34454|date=12 November 1937|page=7087}}</ref> While in India, Chetwode made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Brabourne Stadium|Bombay]] in the 1938–39 [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Pentangular Tournament]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13158/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by George Chetwode |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=20 December 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed by [[Dadabhoy Havewala]] for 6 runs in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed [[leg before wicket]] for a single run by [[S. M. Palsetia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16840.html |title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Pentangular Tournament 1938/39 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=20 December 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Chetwode served in the [[Second World War]], during which he was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in August 1942,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35685|date=28 August 1942|page=3805|supp=y}}</ref> and later in the war he was made an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in December 1944.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36850|date=19 December 1944|page=5846|supp=y}}</ref> After the war had ended, he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in August 1947,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38058|date=26 August 1947|page=4084|supp=y}}</ref> prior to retiring with a gratuity in May 1948.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38282|date=4 May 1948|page=2812|supp=y}}</ref> In retirement, he lived at Swiss Farm House in [[Upper Slaughter|Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire]]. It was there that he died in October 1999.<ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |first=Patrick W. |last=Montague-Smith |date=2003 |page=1111 |publisher=[[Debrett's|Debrett's Peerage Limited]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-333-66093-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FnM-AQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> Chetwode was married to Lady Willa Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1924–2010), the daughter of [[Victor Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 5th Earl of Minto]].<ref name="NEWS"/> The couple had six children. Through their daughter Willa, his grandson is [[Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone]].

==References==
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==External links==
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