The autobiography of George Millar who trained as architect at Cambridge, joined the merchant navy, subsequently became a journalist for the 'Express' in Paris, and after the fall of France during World War II joined the Rifle Brigade, was captured in the Western Desert and interned in an Italian POW camp. After many escape attempts he jumped a prison train, spent months b
The autobiography of George Millar who trained as architect at Cambridge, joined the merchant navy, subsequently became a journalist for the 'Express' in Paris, and after the fall of France during World War II joined the Rifle Brigade, was captured in the Western Desert and interned in an Italian POW camp. After many escape attempts he jumped a prison train, spent months being passed secretly from contact to contact within France, and finally got away to Malta.
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George Reid Millar, DSO MC, was a Scottish journalist, author and soldier who was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for his escape during the first part of the Second World War which he wrote about in
Horned Pigeon
.
Millar was awarded the DSO, the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre avec Palmes for his service in France in 1944 fighting behind the lines with the local Resistance.
George Reid Millar, DSO MC, was a Scottish journalist, author and soldier who was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for his escape during the first part of the Second World War which he wrote about in
Horned Pigeon
.
Millar was awarded the DSO, the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre avec Palmes for his service in France in 1944 fighting behind the lines with the local Resistance. He recorded this experience in his most well known book
Maquis
.
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