George Hogg died of tetanus on July 22, 1945 — just seven years after he first set foot in China. He was only 30 years old.⁣ ⁣ Less than a month later, on August 15, Japan announced its unconditional surrender.⁣ ⁣ From his writings:⁣ “I’m feeling very under the weather… I have tetanus which I can trace to injuring my toe playing basketball with the boys… I feel the end coming… The boys are giving me liquid through a straw but it’s no use. To coin a phrase I heard in my days on the sports field at St George’s, my race is run.”⁣ ⁣ Mark Aylwin Thomas, Hogg’s nephew, reflects:⁣ “It didn’t end too well, did it? Personally, for him. But my word, his spirit lives on. His love for the Shandan school was intense. Sometime in the spring of 1945, Aylwin had written a song: ‘In Shandan we are born again – we will stay in Shandan till we die.’”⁣ ⁣ Though his life was cut short, George Hogg’s legacy — his devotion to his boys, to the Bailie School, and to China’s struggle — endures.⁣ ⁣ NOTE: This vi...