Porter, George

George Porter was born in Liverpool in 1943. At fourteen he left school to join the Army as a boy soldier and subsequently served in Germany, the Persian Gulf, and Norway. He was seconded from the British Army to The Trucial Oman Scouts in 1963 (now the United Arab Emirates), an Arab force policing the seven sheikdoms of the then Trucial States. In Germany he worked as a court shorthand writer for Army Legal Services and finished his career in 1969 in Oslo as the personal assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe. In 1970 he was employed in the music publishing industr...