Deep History, Deepening Collaborations

14 Monuments Man . Archivist and conservator, Roger Henry Ellis (1910–98), was one of the ‘Monuments Men and Women’, who sought to preserve cultural assets from destruction during World War II. In 1934 Ellis began working at the Public Record Office (PRO, today The National Archives UK). During World War II, he served in the British Army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Ellis was assigned to the British Eighth Army in May 1944, and he followed Eighth Army’s progression northward from Lazio through Umbria and into Tuscany, conducting early inspections and making arrangements for first-aid repair to cultural assets. Awards