Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An haifi Anthony Farrar-Hockley a Coventry, Warwickshire, Ingila, a ranar 8 ga Afrilu 1924, ɗan Arthur Farrar-Hockley, ɗan jarida, da Agnes Beatrice (née Griffin). Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Exeter, kuma yana da shekaru 15 ya gudu a farkon Yaƙin Duniya na biyu kuma ya shiga Gloucestershire Regiment, rundunar bindigogi na rundunar sojojin Burtaniya. Ba da daɗewa ba an gano cewa shi ɗan ƙarami ne kuma an sake shi kuma dole ne ya jira don sake shiga cikin 1941. An daukaka shi zuwa sajan yayin da yake dan shekara 17 kuma yana da shekaru 18 kawai lokacin da aka ba shi izini a cikin Wiltshire Regiment, kafin a canza shi zuwa Parachute Regiment a watan Nuwamba 1942. Ya yi yaƙi tare da 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion, wani ɓangare na 2nd Parachute Brigade, a Italiya da kuma
Kudancin Faransa. Daga baya ya sami Gicciye na Soja (MC) a 1944 yayin yaƙi da tawayen kwaminisanci a Athens a lokacin Yaƙin Girka.