Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Anthony Farrar-Hockley i Coventry, Warwickshire, Ingarangi, i te 8 o Aperira 1924, te tama a Arthur Farrar-Hockley, he kairipoata, me Agnes Beatrice (née Griffin). I whakaakona ia i te Kura o Exeter, a i te 15 o ona tau ka rere ia i te timatanga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao ka uru ki te Gloucestershire Regiment, he roopu hiko o te ope taua o Ingarangi. Kaore i roa ka kitea ko ia he tamariki iti, ka tukuna ia, ka tatari kia whakauruhia ano ia i te tau 1941. I whakatairangahia ia ki te kaitiaki i a ia e 17 tonu ana, 18 noa iho ia i te wa i tukuna ai ia ki te Wiltshire Regiment, i mua i tana whakawhiti ki te Parachute Regiment i te marama o Noema 1942. I whawhai ia ki te 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion, he waahanga o te 2nd Parachute Brigade, i Itari me
Te tonga o Wīwī. I muri mai ka wini ia i te Cross Military (MC) i te tau 1944 i a ia e whawhai ana ki te tutu o te komihana i Athens i te Pakanga Taiao o Kariki.