Allegiance United Kingdom Name Roy Redgrave Battles/wars Cyprus Emergency Parents Robin Roy Redgrave | Rank Major-General Died July 3, 2011 Service/branch British Army Role British Army officer | |
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Born 16 September 1925 ( 1925-09-16 ) Commands held Household Cavalry Regiment
Royal Horse Guards
British Forces in Berlin
Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross Books Balkan Blue: Family and Military Memories, Adventures of Colonel Daffodil Cousins Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Corin Redgrave Similar People Margaret Scuda, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Corin Redgrave | ||
Grandparents Roy Redgrave, Ellen Pratt | ||
Major-General Sir Roy Michael Frederick Redgrave, KBE MC (16 September 1925 – 3 July 2011) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.
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Military career
Educated at Lambrook preparatory school and Sherborne School, Redgrave joined Royal Horse Guards as a trooper in 1943. In 1953 he managed the Hyde Park Horse Camp for the Coronation of the Queen. Then in the late 1950s he was deployed to Cyprus at the height of the EOKA resistance campaign.
He was made Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment in 1962 and of the Royal Horse Guards in 1964. He became Commandant of the Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1974 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1975. He went on to be Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1978 and retired in 1980.
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. He had two sons.