1. Ion Calvocoressi's father was descended from a Greek family from Chios; two uncles married into the Ralli family.
13 Facts About Ion Calvocoressi
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Ion Calvocoressi was a director of the Indian branch of Greek merchant business, Ralli Brothers.
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Ion Calvocoressi was educated at Eton College and read Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate Military Cross in 1942, while serving as a lieutenant in command of a platoon of six-pounder anti-tank guns.
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Ion Calvocoressi's platoon destroyed five German tanks before it was overrun.
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Ion Calvocoressi rejoined his unit the next day after walking 17 miles across the desert.
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Ion Calvocoressi accompanied Leese in North Africa, and, after Leese took command of the Eighth Army, into Italy, and finally to the Far East, where Leese became commander of Allied Land Forces South East Asia.
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Ion Calvocoressi became a stockbroker after the war, concentrating on private client work.
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Ion Calvocoressi moved to the town of Westerham in Kent in 1950, near the country home of Winston Churchill at Chartwell.
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Ion Calvocoressi was instrumental in the erection of a statue of Churchill by Oscar Nemon in the town in 1965.
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Ion Calvocoressi was a life member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, a Fellow of the Ancient Monuments Society, and a financial adviser to the Royal Society of Musicians.
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Ion Calvocoressi was survived by his wife, Katherine Kennedy, whom he married on 29 April 1947.
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Ion Calvocoressi's cousin, Peter Calvocoressi, worked in RAF Intelligence at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and was an author.