Jocelyn Lee Hardy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jocelyn Lee Hardy

British military officer and POW

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1894

Place of Birth: Kensington, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-May-1958

Profession: autobiographer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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".