Lieutenant Colonel William Hugh Adamson Becke CMG DSO (24 September 1916 – 3 April 2009) was a British Army officer, best remembered for his role during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.

[2] It was then that he was awarded his DSO at San Savino, for his gallantry in a night attack on German tanks after the Anzio landing in Italy in January 1944 with his battalion.

During his posting the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation began, when Britain as part of the dismantling of the Empire in Southeast Asia, proposed to combine its colonies on Borneo with the Federation of Malaya to form a new country called Malaysia.

In what is now a legendary act Walker strode up and down in front of the building, dodging the missiles and relentlessly playing his bagpipes despite pleas from the police and the leader of the demonstrators, eventually the mob broke up and the battle was won.

[4] Two days later however the mob returned and broke through the fence besieging the building and eventually setting it on fire, Becke, Walker and the Ambassador Sir Andrew Gilchrist stood their ground taking a stand on British sovereign soil and defending the embassy strong room.

He was a senior marshal for the RSL's Anzac Day march between 1977 and 1999, he was also a keen hockey player and he served as honorary treasurer of the National Trust spire appeal for Christ Church in South Yarra, where he was a committed member of the congregation.