High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Major Jocelyn Lee ‘Hoppy’ Hardy DSO, MC with Bar 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. Between 1920 and 1922 he served as an intelligence officer in Dublin during the counter-insurgency campaign against the IRA and afterwards would retire from the army to become a successful writer. His nickname stems from him losing a leg in combat during the final months of the war. 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". Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена...