George Edward McGill (14 April 1918 – 31 March 1944), was a Royal Canadian Air Force officer, the observer (navigator) of a Vickers Wellington bomber, who was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

His initial flight training as an observer and bomb aimer commenced 2 March 1941, he was promoted Sergeant on 12 April 1941 and posted to No.1 Air Navigation School.

[2][3] On 10 January 1942 McGill was a member of the crew of Vickers Wellington (serial number "Z1142") attacking the German naval port city of Wilhelmshaven.

[5] McGill was held at Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland).

[9] George McGill, Henry Birkland, Patrick Langford, Mike Casey, George Wiley, Tom Leigh, John Pohe, Cyril Swain, Charles Hall, Brian Evans, Wlodzimierz Kolanowski and Bob Stewart were taken away in black cars by plain clothes Gestapo officials on 30 and 31 March 1944 and were never seen alive again.

[19] McGill received a Mentioned in Despatches for conspicuous gallantry as a prisoner of war as none of the other relevant decorations then available could be awarded posthumously.