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Jun 10, 1894 Kensington, England, United Kingdom Died on 30 May 1958 (aged 63)
British military officer and POW
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About Jocelyn Lee Hardy
- Major Jocelyn Lee ‘Hoppy’ Hardy DSO, MC with Bar (10 June 1894 – 30 May 1958), was a British Army officer famed for his courage on the battlefield and repeated escapes from German prisoner of war camps during the First World War.
- He is considered one of the most ruthless British operatives working in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence.
- He is wildly regarded as orchestrating the murder of Peter O’Carroll, he orchestrated the death of Seán Treacy and, perhaps most grimly, the killing of Peadar Clancy and Dick McKee, two senior members of the Dublin IRA, and Conor Clune, a Gaelic League member. Between 1920 and 1922 he served as an intelligence officer in Dublin as part of the British counter-insurgency against republican forces during the Irish War of Independence.
- He retired from the army to become a successful writer.
- His nickname, "Hoppy", stemmed from the loss of a leg in combat during the final months of World War One.
- Fitted with an artificial prosthesis, he trained himself to disguise the fact, by walking at a very quick pace, almost completely disguising the notion that he had a wooden leg, but earning him the sobriquet "Hoppy".
