| George Wyllie | |
| Birth Date: | 25 December 1908 |
| Birth Place: | Hurlford, Scotland |
| Death Place: | Tower Hamlets, England |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1939–1943 |
| Rank: | Sapper |
| Unit: | Royal Engineers |
| Battles: | Second World War |
| Awards: | George Cross |
George Cameron Wyllie,[1] GC (25 December 1908 – 1 February 1987) of the Royal Engineers was awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 12 September 1940 when a 1000-1NaN-1 bomb fell near St Paul's Cathedral in Deans Yard. It took three days to dig the bomb out of soft soil, work made even more dangerous by a fire at a fractured gas main. Wylie and his team placed the recovered bomb on a lorry, which was driven to Hackney Marshes, where the bomb was detonated, leaving a crater 100feet wide.[2]
The citation from a supplement to The London Gazette of 27 September 1940 (dated 30 September 1940) reads:
. James Owen (British author). 2010. Danger UXB. Little, Brown. 978-1-4087-0255-0.