[1] After deciding a career in architecture was not for him, Hunter-Choat travelled to Paris in March 1957 to join the French Foreign Legion.

[1] At the time, the Algerian War had become a high-intensity conflict requiring around 400,000 French and colonial troops in the country to maintain order.

In February 1958, as a machine-gunner, Hunter-Choat took part in the Battle of Fedj Zezoua, for his service in which he was awarded the Cross for Military Valour.

Hunter-Choat was one of a number of troops who occupied key parts of Algiers on behalf of the putsch on the night of 21 April 1961.

After Charles de Gaulle made an appeal on national television against the coup, support for it collapsed and 1e REP was subsequently disbanded.

After passing out the top in his course at Mons Officer Cadet School, he was assigned to the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles and posted to Malaya.

From 1983 to 1986, he was a senior staff officer at the NATO headquarters in Naples and a special forces adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).

[1] Immediately after retiring from the British Army, he became Commander of the Sultan of Oman's special forces at the rank of brigadier.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hunter-Choat became head of security for the Coalition Provisional Authority's Program Management Office (PMO), which was responsible for funding reconstruction projects in the country.

He was involved in some scandal when the PMO awarded a contract worth $293 million to Aegis Defence Services headed by Tim Spicer, who Hunter-Choat knew personally.

Hunter-Choat had served as both president and secretary general of the British branch of the Foreign Legion Association and was a keen Freemason.