George Hogg (adventurer)
British adventurer
George Aylwin Hogg (Chinese: 何克; pinyin: Hé Kè; Wade–Giles: Ho2 K'o4, 26 January 1915 – 22 July 1945) was a British adventurer. He studied economics at University of Oxford and was best known for saving 60 orphaned boys during the Second Sino-Japanese War and leading them 700 miles (1,100 km) through dangerous mountain passes, escaping the approaching Japanese and Chinese Nationalist forces in the Shaanxi area.
Early life
George Aylwin Hogg was the son of Robert Hogg a merchant tailor from Belfast, Co. Antrim & his wife Kathleen née Lester. Hogg grew up in the small town of Harpenden in the United Kingdom. He attended St George's School, Harpenden, where he was head boy. Afterwards, he went to Wadham College in Oxford, studied economics, obtaining a degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then became a freelance journalist for the Manchester Guardian.
In 1937 he sailed on the Queen Mary to New York City, hitchhiked across the United States, and joined his aunt Muriel Lester (a well-known English pacifist and friend of Mahatma Gandhi). They continued their trip to Japan.
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