George Reginald Starr was a British mining engineer who contributed extensively in the Second World War. Absorbed as a Special Operations Executive’s (SOE) secret agent due to his language skills, Starr went on to become one of the best secret agents that the SOE had. His admission as a secret agent came unexpectedly. Originally trained as a mining engineer, Starr was working in Belgium when the German invasion began. Though he escaped to England successfully, he soon found himself embroiled in the military SOE group. Under the code name ‘Hilaire’, Starr major task was to organize, arm and train people willing to fight the German army. His greatest achievement came when he successfully persuaded the communist and anti-communist members of the French resistance to work together. Starr set up a highly successful Wheelwright resistance network around Bordeaux, Toulouse and Pyrenees in southern France. In the spring of 1944, he formed the Armagnac group that harassed the Germans by disrupting communication, cutting telephone wires, blowing railway lines and sabotaging power lines for many days at a stretch. He ended the war with the rank of lieutenant colonel. For his outstanding contribution in World War II, he was conferred with many prestigious honors and medals.