This is my father, Corporal George Miller, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment in 1945 somewhere in Italy. Six years earlier, as Ujlaki Müller György he had left his native Hungary to enter Cambridge University in 1939 as an undergraduate to study Agriculture and Chemistry. An avowed anti-fascist, he did all he could to assist in the war effort; a volunteer fire watcher as well as a member of the student training corps. After university, now a registered enemy alien, he continued fire watching during the bombing raids on London until he was able to join up in 1944. From North Africa his regiment fought up through Italy, into Austria and he was finally stationed in North Germany. Alongside his soldiering, he worked as an interpreter in the many Displaced Persons camps along the way. A decade later, now married with a young family, his compassion for others was called upon once more. In 1956 the brutal suppression of the Hungarian Uprising by the Russians forced thousands of Hungarians to flee their country for their lives. Of those refugees who came to Britain, my father, a fellow compatriot, was there to help them rebuild their lives in a new land.
Alison Miller Writer 
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