His son Norman wrote these first reports, but subsequent full page profiles were produced by eight other writers that Preston chose.
[13] In 1945 Preston wrote of the England Australia game "War meant the home side experienced difficulty in finding the best of the available players.
Some of the chosen men, coming almost straight from battlefields, must have regarded the first encounter primarily as a reunion with old friends, so that a thoroughly serious view of the game, such as the Australians clearly held, was too much to expect".
[16] Upon Preston's death in 1960, Neville Cardus wrote that he was "with [Sydney] Pardon and Stewart Caine, the most courteous and best-mannered man ever to be seen in a Press Box on a cricket ground".
[17] His funeral service was held at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, London, on 17 August 1960.