Roy Redgrave (British Army officer)

Educated at Lambrook preparatory school and Sherborne School, Redgrave joined the Royal Horse Guards as a trooper in 1943 during World War II.[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]

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.[3] He had two sons.[4][1]

• 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