Ion Calvocoressi

Major Ion Melville Calvocoressi MBE MC (12 April 1919 – 7 July 2007) was an officer in the British Army during the Second World War and later a stockbroker in the City of London.

He won an immediate Military Cross in 1942,[4] while serving as a lieutenant in command of a platoon of six-pounder anti-tank guns.

After days of intense fighting, the battalion was attacked by two armoured columns from the 21st Panzer Division on 13 June 1942.

[2][5] He was wounded in July 1942, rescuing members of the battalion's forward observation post, and became aide-de-camp to the commander of XXX Corps, Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese in 1943.

His cousin, Peter Calvocoressi, worked in RAF Intelligence at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and was an author.

From left to right, General Sir Alan Brooke , Major Randolph Churchill , Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese , Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Sir Bernard Montgomery , having an alfresco lunch during Prime Minister Churchill's visit to Tripoli, February 1943. Standing behind Montgomery is Leese's aide-de-camp , Ian Calvocoressi.