ARMS AND ARMOUR HERITAGE TRUST - Key Persons
Andrew Wallis has been Curator of The Guards Museum since 2005 after a 30 years in investment banking with Deutsche Bank. Andrew has been a Member of the Honourable Artillery Company since 1973 and currently commands the Lord Mayor's ceremonial bodyguard, the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers.
He is a trustee of Veteran's Aid, a tri-service military charity that helps homeless ex-servicemen and founded the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden.Mr Wallis was invested with tf rolex datejust 116244 72600 mens rolex calibre 2836 2813 12mm an MBE in January 2015 and appointed as an Officer of the Belgian Order of Leopold (OL) in July 2015. He has recently been appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Bedfordshire (DL).Andrew Wallis became a Trustee of the Arms & Armour Heritage Trust in 2014.
Job Titles:
- Trustee of the Arms & Armour Heritage Trust
Sinclair Rogers was a Professor of Linguistics and later Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. He was Chairman of the Agincourt 600 Committee that planned the events to commemorate the 600th anniversary of Agincourt in 2015.
Sinclair Rogers became a Trustee of the Arms & Armour Heritage Trust in 2014.
Frank Baldwin is a retired Major in the Royal Artillery (1979-1989), a Member of the British Commission for Military History, a Council Member for the Guild of Battlefield Guides, Adviser to Liberation Route Europe and past Chairman of the Battlefields Trust. He is Founder of British Battlefields (to provide a commercial service to promote inbound and domestic battlefield tourism). Frank Baldwin became a Trustee of the Arms & Armour Heritage Trust in 2011
Martin Knight is now retired after a career in IT senior management (Broadband Service Systems). He has been involved in the long term study of Swords and Armour, initially Napoleonic followed by Medieval especially late 14 th and 15 th centuries.
Martin has given presentations to the public at the Wallace Collection (Napoleonic Sabres), to The Agincourt 600 events at the University of Southampton (Arms of 100 Years War), to the Battlefields Trust (Arms and Armour of the Cousins War). He a keen photographer of the above, of military funerary monuments, of medieval art, castles, renaissance cities etc. Tuscany, Sicily, Bavaria, Normandy etc. Martin Knight became a Trustee of the Arms & Armour Heritage Trust in 2017.
Job Titles:
- President of the Battlefields Trust
Hardy, who is President of the Battlefields Trust, joked with his audience that he might be able to pinpoint the exact site of the 1646 battle of Stow which is regarded as something of a mystery.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Stow and District
Tim Norris, Chairman of the Stow and District Civic Society, which jointly with the Arms and Armour Heritage Trust funded the new theft-proof display cabinet, said: ‘This is the first time in fifty years that Stow has had a permanent secure location to show off its wonderful collection of Civil War weaponry and armour.'
Stow acquired its valuable collection of military paraphernalia in 1948 from a Captain Christie Crawfurd. He had visited the town with his wife in the 1930s. She became ill there, and he was so struck by the kindness of the people of Stow that he bequeathed his collection of historic artefacts to the town. Until now there's been no way of safely displaying them. A few items were on show in St Edward's Hall, but during the Stow Festival in 2011, two civil war helmets were stolen.