Roy Redgrave (British Army officer)

Major-General Sir Roy Michael Frederick Redgrave, KBE MC (16 September 1925 – 3 July 2011) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.[1]

Sir Roy Redgrave
Born	16 September 1925 Bucharest, Romania
Died	3 July 2011 (aged 85) United Kingdom
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	Household Cavalry Regiment Royal Horse Guards British Forces in Berlin Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong
Battles/wars	Cyprus Emergency
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross

Military career

Educated at Lambrook preparatory school and Sherborne School, Redgrave joined Royal Horse Guards as a trooper in 1943.[2] In 1953 he managed the Hyde Park Horse Camp for the Coronation of the Queen.[3] Then in the late 1950s he was deployed to Cyprus at the height of the EOKA resistance campaign.[3]

He was made Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment in 1962 and of the Royal Horse Guards in 1964.[2] He became Commandant of the Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1974 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1975.[2] He went on to be Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1978 and retired in 1980.[2]

Family life

He was related to the Redgrave family of actors, via his father Robin Roy Redgrave, who was the patriarch Roy Redgrave's son by his first wife. Thus he was a nephew of Sir Michael Redgrave and a half-blood first cousin of Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave.[3] He had two sons.[4][1]

References

1. "Obituary of Sir Roy Redgrave". The Daily Telegraph. London. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
2. Debrett's People of Today 1994
3. Full marks for originality. The Spectator, 3 February 2001
4. Major General Sir Roy Redgrave. The Times, 6 July 2011

Publications

• Balkan Blue by Major General Sir Roy Redgrave KBE MC, published by Pen & Sword, London 2000
• Adventures of Colonel Daffodil by Major General Sir Roy Redgrave KBE MC, published by Pen & Sword, London 2007