George Edward Kruger was born in 1880, in St. Helier, the capital of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. When he was five years old he and his family moved to Liverpool in England. As a young man he studied at the Royal College of Art, London. During the First World War he served as a soldier, and in 1918 he married Audrey Gray, adding her surname to his own.
Kruger-Gray provided many of the mostly heraldic reverse designs that appeared on British coinage between 1927 and 1952, but in this topic I want to concentrate on his designs for the Dominions and other realms of the British Empire.