George was educated at Uppingham School and at Exeter College, Oxford, gaining honours in natural sciences. He continued his studies at St Thomas's Hospital qualifying M.B., B.Ch. in 1914 and M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1915. He gained a temporary commission within the R.A.M.C. at the rank of Lieutenant on 18th January 1915, and after five months joined the 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade as their Medical Officer. George was awarded the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Loos "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during the heavy fighting near Fauquissart on 25th September 1915. Lieutenant Maling worked incessantly with untiring energy from 6.25am on the 25th till 8am on 26th collecting and treating in the open, under heavy shell fire, more than 300 men. At about 11am on the 25th he was flung down and temporarily stunned by the bursting of a large high explosive shell which wounded his only assistant and killed several of his patients. A second shell soon after covered him and his assistants with debris, but his high courage and zeal never failed him, and he continued his gallant work single-handed." He returned to the UK and served in the Military Hospital in Grantham, and then joined the 34th Field Ambulance, serving in France for another two years. In 1917 he married Daisy Mabel, the daughter of Stephen Wollmer of Winnipeg; they had a son. After the war George was appointed resident Medical Officer at the Victoria Hospital for Children at Chelsea. He then went into partnership in Lee, South London where he practiced until he died. He was the son of Dr Edwin Alan Maling M.R.C.S., J.P., and of Maria Jane Maling (nee Hartley). [Photograph courtesy of Simon Gildea]