Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Amụrụ nwa Arthur Blair ma gụrụ akwụkwọ na Harrow School na Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Blair ka enyere ya ọrụ dịka onye nke abụọ na Seaforth Highlanders na 26 Jenụwarị 1939. O jere ozi n'Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ na ndị agha nke abụọ na nke asaa nke ndị agha ya. Na-eje ozi na 2nd Battalion, nke mejupụtara akụkụ nke 51st (Highland) Division, na 1940, a manyere battalion ahụ ịhapụ na Dunkirk, ọ ghọrọ onye mkpọrọ agha na ogige Oflag V-B na Biberach na Baden-Württemberg. Ọ gbagara Switzerland ma si ebe ahụ gaa Spen na Gibraltar. Dị ka ndị dị otú ahụ, ọ bụ onye isi mbụ laghachiri n'ụlọ mgbe ọ gbapụrụ n'ogige ndị mkpọrọ agha. E nyere Blair ihe nrite Military Cross maka ihe ndị o mere. O mechara jee ozi na 7th Battalion, Seaforths, nke mejupụtara akụkụ nke 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, ma soro ndị agha ahụ n'oge niile nke
na Northwest Europe, na-agbadata na Normandy obere oge mgbe D-Day na June 1944 na-alụ ọgụ ruo mgbe Victory na Europe Day fọrọ nke nta kpọmkwem ọnwa iri na otu gasịrị.