Ivan William Stanley Moss , ( called Bill or Billy ) was born in Yokohama , Japan . His mother , Natalie Galitch ( born in Nikolayevsk Usuriski ) , was a White Russian émigrée , and his father , William Stanley Moss , an English businessman and steel merchant in Japan . They married on 22 September 1916 . The family survived the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake . Moss attended Charterhouse in England ( 1934 – 39 )
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
W. Stanley Moss