Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife shi ɗan Arthur Blair kuma ya yi karatu a Makarantar Harrow da Kwalejin Soja ta Royal, Sandhurst, Blair an ba shi izini a matsayin na biyu a cikin Seaforth Highlanders a ranar 26 ga Janairu 1939. Ya yi aiki a Yaƙin Duniya na II tare da 2nd da 7th Battalions na rundunarsa. Yin aiki tare da Bataliya ta 2, wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na 51st (Highland) Division, a cikin 1940, an tilasta bataliya ta mika wuya a Dunkirk, kuma ya zama fursunonin yaƙi a sansanin Oflag V-B a Biberach a Baden-Württemberg. Ya tsere zuwa Switzerland daga nan kuma zuwa Spain da Gibraltar. Saboda haka shi ne jami'in farko da ya koma gida bayan ya tsere daga sansanin fursunonin yaki. An ba Blair lambar yabo ta Soja saboda ayyukansa. Daga baya ya yi aiki tare da Battalion na 7, Seaforths, wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, kuma ya kasance tare da battalion a duk lokacin yakin a Arewa maso Yammacin Turai
, saukowa a Normandy jim kadan bayan D-Day a watan Yuni 1944 da kuma fada har sai Victory a Turai Day kusan daidai watanni goma sha ɗaya daga baya.