George Hogg

George Aylwin Hogg (, 26 January 1915 – 22 July 1945) was a British adventurer. He studied economics at University of Oxford and was best known for saving 60 orphan ed boys during the Second Sino-Japanese War and leading them 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 They continued their trip to Japan.

Shandan Bailie School

Hogg started to assist the Gung Ho movement operated by New Zealand-born communist Rewi Alley in Shaanxi.

Death In July 1945, Hogg stubbed his toe while playing basketball with the boys.

His life is chronicled in Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg by James MacManus. His own account is George Aylwin Hogg, I See a New China, which includes his participation in the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives project in rural industrialization.