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Jungle Fighter: Infantry Officer, Chindit and S.O.E. Agent in Burma, 1941-45
By J.D.H. Hedley
Gubbins SOE
By Peter Wilkinson, Joan Bright Astley
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31773" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Farrar-Hockley </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Anthony Heritage (Tony) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 Bn (C Company) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Captain + T/Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>251309 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Cross,Mention in Despatches </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Greece 1944-45 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 8.4.1924 Coventry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Exeter School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted Gloucestershire Regiment age 17</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged as underage</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>re-enlisted 70th Young Soldiers' Bn 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Parachute Regiment 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 Bn Parachute Regiment 1944-45</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded M.C.,Mention in Despatches</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Bn Gloucestershire Regiment (Adjutant)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW April 1951-53</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded D.S.O.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>DA and AQMG + Brigade Major 16th Parachute Brigade 1950s</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief Instructor,RMA Sandhurst 1959</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 Bn Parachute Regiment (C.O.) 1962-65</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded bar to D.S.O.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief of Staff to Director of Operations,Borneo 1965</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC 16th Parachute Brigade 1966 (Brigadier)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of Army Public Relations</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC Land Forces,Northern Ireland (Major General)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC 4th Armoured Division 1971</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ministry of Defence (Director of Combat Development (Army)) 1974</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant General 1977</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GOC South East District</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Knighted 1977</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C-inC Allied Forces,Northern Europe 1979-82</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1982 as General</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>ADC General to the Queen 1981-83</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colonel Commandant of Prince of Wales Division 1974-80</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colonel Commandant of Parachute Regiment 1977-83</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colonel of Gloucestershire Regiment 1978-84</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded G.B.E. 1981</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>historical author</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Margaret Bernadette Wells 1945 (died 1981) (2 sons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Linda Wood 1983</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 11.3.2006 (Aged 81)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>St. John The Baptist, Moulsford, Oxfordshire, UK</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-farrar-hockley.2046/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2046-8cdf06af6e6a86dd78e04362cc4bdbdd.jpg?1591383396" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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