Anthony Farrar-Hockley (British)

Farrar-Hockley was educated at Exeter School. He enlisted under age into the ranks of the Gloucestershire Regiment at the beginning of WW2, rose through the ranks to sergeant, and was commissioned into the newly forming Airborne Forces in 1942. After that he served as a staff officer and regimental officer in North Africa, Greece, Italy and France in WW2, then Palestine, Korea, Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Malaya, the Persian Gulf, Aden, and Borneo. He had written ever since he left school. At the time of writing the book on First Ypres he was commanding a Parachute Brigade.