Anthony Farrar-Hockley

Who was Anthony Farrar-Hockley?

General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, MC, affectionately known as 'Farrar the Para', was a British soldier and a military historian who distinguished himself in a number of British conflicts. He held a number of senior British Army commands, ending his career as NATO's Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe.

Throughout his four decades of army life, he spoke plainly, and both before and after his retirement in 1982 wrote effectively on the conflicts he had experienced and the First World War.