Trained as an actor at the London Theatre Studio in the mid-1930s and performed on the classical stage.
Captain Alastair Bannerman, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, landed in Normandy on D-Day.
Served in WWII and spent the last years of the war as a prisoner by the Germans.
In the early 1950s he worked in his family's clothing business and joined the National Trust in the late 1960s, eventually becoming National Events Organizer and presenting a number of theatrical events and spectacles.