Anthony Farrar-Hockley

Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Appearing with Bernadette McAliskey on After Dark, 18 March 1988: "Licensed to Kill?"
Birth name	Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley
Nickname(s)	"Farrar the Para"
Born	(1924-04-08)8 April 1924 Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Died	11 March 2006(2006-03-11) (aged 81) Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England
Buried	St John the Baptist, Moulsford
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1941–1982
Rank	General
Service number	251309
Unit	Gloucestershire Regiment Wiltshire Regiment Parachute Regiment
Commands	Allied Forces Northern Europe South East District 4th Division 16th Parachute Brigade 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
Battles / wars	Second World War Greek Civil War Palestine Emergency Korean War Cyprus Emergency Indonesian Confrontation Aden Emergency
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order & Bar Military Cross Mentioned in Despatches (2)
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Spouse(s)	Margaret Bernadette Wells ​ ​ (m. 1945; died 1981)​ Linda Wood ​ (m. 1983)​
Children	3 including Charles Dair Farrar-Hockley
Other work	ADC General to the Queen Military historian

General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, MC (8 April 1924 – 11 March 2006), nicknamed Farrar the Para, was a British Army officer and a military historian who fought in a number of British conflicts. He held a number of senior commands, ending his career as Commander-in-Chief of NATO's Allied Forces Northern Europe. Throughout his four decades of army life, he spoke plainly, and both before and after his retirement in 1982 wrote on the conflicts he had experienced and the Second World War.^[1]