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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.
Learn about George Hogg, a British journalist and schoolteacher who helped China fight against Japan in WWII. See his story, his legacy, and his connection to St George's School in Harpenden.
Mar 3, 2008 · The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety – only to die tragically in early 1945.
- James MacManus
George ‘Aylwin’ Hogg entered St George’s in 1927 and left in 1934. His short and remarkable life has left a profound legacy on the people of China, and also on his school, St George’s. For those unacquainted with the story, Hogg went up to Wadham College Oxford in ’34 to read ‘Greats’ (PPE), thereby following a family tradition ...
George Hogg – Headmaster of Shuangshipu Bailie School. Hogg soon became a CIC inspector, travelling in difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances throughout the North West to investigate the progress and problems of village co-operatives. In 1942, he was appointed headmaster of the CIC Bailie School in Shuangshipu.
Papers of George Aylwin Hogg comprising: Letters from George Hogg, Sep 1937- Jul 1945, mainly to his parents and (1944-1945) to Rewi Alley, describing his travels in the United States and Japan and his work and life in China.
This definitive biography of an extraordinary young man has been critically-acclaimed by book experts and has been regarded as "almost an autobiography". It is the inspiring story of a young Englishman who became a legend in war-torn China and whose memory is still revered there today.
