My brother David Sheppard carries the middle name Alexander, named after his Uncle Alexander Sheppard, a man he had never met but who he had heard vague family stories about having a connection with Greece during the war. David married his beautiful, first-generation Greek bride Betty – daughter of Katerina and John Kostoulias – and several years later when their son John was born, they gave him the middle name of Alexander. Until recently our family knew nothing of the deep personal and emotional connection that John’s Great Uncle Alexander had to Greece, and that he was widely known as “The Man Who Loved Greece”.