Honorific Prefix: | Major-General |
Sir Roy Redgrave | |
Birth Date: | 1925 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Bucharest, Romania |
Death Place: | United Kingdom |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Serviceyears: | 1943−1980 |
Rank: | Major-General |
Servicenumber: | 330640 |
Unit: | Royal Horse Guards |
Commands: | Household Cavalry Regiment Royal Horse Guards British Forces in Berlin Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong |
Battles: | World War II Cyprus Emergency |
Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross |
Major-General Sir Roy Michael Frederick Redgrave, (16 September 1925 – 3 July 2011) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.
Educated at Lambrook preparatory school and Sherborne School, Redgrave joined the Royal Horse Guards as a trooper in 1943 during World War II.[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 first cousin of the half blood of Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave.[2] He had two sons.[3] [4]
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