Aston was a strong, tough-tackling left-back who also played as a centre forward for his club on occasion.
He won 17 England caps between 1948 and 1950, all at left-back, and featured in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
He was forced into retirement in 1954 after contracting tuberculosis,[1] having scored 30 goals in 284 appearances for Manchester United.
Because of the tuberculosis, he had to have a lung removed; he was offered treatment in Switzerland or North Wales, and chose the latter due to its proximity to home and family.
[2] Aston returned to the club as youth team coach in the early 1960s and was then chief scout under new manager Wilf McGuinness in 1969, and had a three-year spell in the position before being sacked along with McGuinness's successor, Frank O'Farrell in late 1972.