George Millar

Biography

George Reid Millar DSO MC (19 September 1910 – 15 January 2005) was a Scottish journalist, soldier, author and farmer. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in early 1944 for escaping from Germany while a prisoner of war and making it back to England, which he wrote about in his 1946 book Horned Pigeon. Millar was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the French Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre avec Palmes for his service as an SOE officer in France in 1944. He recorded his experiences fighting behind the lines with the local Resistance in his 1945 book Maquis; this book, his most well-known, belongs with others written by British servicemen who fought behind enemy lines including Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss, Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean and Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

154 releases · 35 albums · active 1968–2022

  • Performance · 470
  • Other credits · 129
  • Production · 27
  • Engineering · 18

Studios: Rick Salt Studios · Can-Base Studios · Thunder Sound · Island Pacific Studios

Frequent collaborators

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