Anthony Farrar-Hockley

General

Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley

GBE KCB DSO & Bar MC
General; Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley; GBE KCB DSO & Bar MC
	Appearing with Bernadette McAliskey on After Dark, 18 March 1988: "Licensed to Kill?"
Nickname	"Farrar the Para"
Born	Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley; 8 April 1924; Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Died	11 March 2006 (aged 81); Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England
Buried	St John the Baptist, Moulsford
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Service years	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
Conflicts	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
Spouses	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 (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 conflicts and ended 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, he wrote on the conflicts he had experienced and the Second World War.