W. Stanley Moss
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Ivan William Stanley Moss (1919 - 1963) DSO, known as Billy, was a war hero and best-selling author in the 1950s.
Born in Japan, his mother was a White Russian emigre, and his father an English businessman. He went to school at Charterhouse, and during World War II was a member of the Coldstream Guards before joining the Special Operations Executive. He became a major aged 22 and was posted to Crete to assist the partisans there. He is best remembered for his involvement with the capture of General Kreipe, the events of which later became the basis for his best-selling book Ill Met by Moonlight. An adaptation of the book was made into a film, starring Dirk Bogarde as Patrick Leigh Fermor, and David Oxely as Moss.
He married the Polish refugee Countess Zofia Roza Jadwiga Elzbieta Tarnowska, (grand daughter of Stanislaw Tarnowski (1837-1917) ), in Cairo before the end of the war, and they moved to Ireland. He continued to achieve success as an author, and they had three children, Christine Isabelle, Gabriella Zofia, and Billy. They later moved to Putney, London, and separated in 1957. He moved to Kingston, Jamaica, and died aged 44.
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