Roy Redgrave (British Army officer)

Sir Roy Redgrave
Born	16 September 1925
Died	3 July 2011 (aged 85)
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

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

Military career

Educated at Lambrook preparatory school and Sherborne School, Redgrave joined Royal Horse Guards as a trooper in 1943.^[1] In 1953 he managed the Hyde Park Horse Camp for the Coronation of the Queen.^[2] Then in the late 1950s he was deployed to Cyprus at the height of the EOKA resistance campaign.^[2]

He was made Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment in 1962 and of the Royal Horse Guards in 1964.^[1] He became Commandant of the Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1974 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1975.^[1] He went on to be Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1978 and retired in 1980.^[1]

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.^[2] He had two sons.^[3][4]

References

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

Publications

• Balkan Blue by Major General Sir Roy Redgrave KBE MC, published by Pen & Sword, London 2000