George Harrison served with “Shrimp” Simpson (later Captain Simpson of 10th Flotilla fame) in HMS Thames, in 1932.

In his autobiography Shrimp records seeing Harrison emerge from the fore hatch in Malta in August 1942.  Shrimp greeted Harrison, asking after his wife and the three (triplet) boys they had had in 1932.  “Well, Sir” came the reply.  “It was just bad luck.  A bomb got the lot of them at night in that blitz on Devonport”.

George was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette of 20 January 1942) “for courage, skill and resolution in successful submarine patrols” and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 65, Column 2.