George Loughlin Blore was born at the Melbourne suburb of Malvern on 14 May 1916 to parents Alfred Houghton and Elise Mary (née Reynolds). Alfred, a veteran of the First World War, was a prominent member of the local community with a strong sense of civic duty. He enlisted with the Australian Army a month after the outbreak of the Second World War, and served with the 12th Garrison Battalion, a unit tasked with domestic defence in Victoria. Following this example, three of his sons eligible to serve all enlisted during the Second World War. The eldest, Alfred Stewart, joined on 21 December 1939, followed by George Loughlin on 18 March 1940, and Peter Edward on 11 May 1945.

A month after enlisting, Blore was attached to 3 Australian Special Hospital. He embarked from Melbourne on 5 May 1940, and disembarked at the small town of Gourock on the west coast of Scotland on 19 June. After five weeks in camp at Tidworth, he was transferred to 3 Australian General Hospital at Milford. It was here that Blore began duties as a hospital orderly for a posting that continued until March 1941.

Blore departed Milford for the Middle East on 19 March 1941. After disembarking at Suez on 6 May following a long and circuitous voyage, he experienced a succession of transfers after his unit was restructured. Over a period of six months beginning on 2 June 1941, he was promoted to acting corporal and then transferred to Headquarters, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and 9 Australian General Hospital before returning to the YMCA for the remainder of his deployment in the Middle East. During this period his rank of corporal was confirmed.

Blore embarked from Suez attached to the 2/17th Infantry Battalion on 26 January 1943, and disembarked at Sydney on 28 February. Following a period of leave and jungle training on the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland, he embarked with the 2/17th Battalion for Milne Bay in New Guinea on 31 July 1943. His posting to the 9 Field Ambulance in January 1944 sparked another series of transfers to medical units for the last three months of his deployment. He embarked from Finschhafen with Headquarters attached to the 20th Infantry Brigade on 2 March 1944, and disembarked at Brisbane a week later.

On 17 May 1944 Blore was admitted to hospital with malaria and discharged several weeks later, only to be readmitted to hospital with the same disease on 10 August. He re-joined his unit in late August, and commenced an extended period of training while the 20th Brigade waited for another assignment. This came in the final months of the war, as Blore and members of the 20th Brigade embarked from Townsville on 26 April 1945, and disembarked at Morotai Island a week later. Initially tasked with the capture of North Borneo, the brigade moved on from this mission by late May and embarked for the island of Labuan. Blore spend much of his remaining deployment in this area. He departed Morotai Island during late October 1945 and disembarked at Melbourne on 9 November. He was discharged from service one week later.

Blore announced his engagement to Una Panelli on 13 October 1945. The couple were married in 1946 and moved to the town of Seville east of Melbourne, where Blore began working as an orchardist. The couple subsequently settled in the suburb of Ringwood by the mid-1950s, where they raised a family.

George Loughlin Blore died on 3 August 2001.