Roy Redgrave (British Army officer)

Major-General

Sir Roy Redgrave

KBE MC
Born(1925-09-16)16 September 1925
Bucharest, Romania
Died3 July 2011(2011-07-03) (aged 85)
United Kingdom
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch
 British Army
Service years
1943−1980
Rank
Major-General
Service number330640
UnitRoyal Horse Guards
CommandsHousehold Cavalry Regiment
Royal Horse Guards
British Forces in Berlin
Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong
Conflicts
World War II
Cyprus Emergency
AwardsKnight 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.[1]

Military career

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]

Family

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 was born at Athénée Palace Hotel in Bucharest and grew up at Doftana, where his father ran an oil-drilling business. His mother, Micheline Capșa, was the daughter of a Romanian army general. As a boy, Redgrave assumed a family connection to the Capșa family behind Bucharest's famous Casa Capșa, which she denied. When the war broke out, he was at school in England and reunited with the family only after the war. He had two sons.[4][1][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Obituary of Sir Roy Redgrave". The Daily Telegraph. London. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Debrett's People of Today 1994
  3. 1 2 3 "Full marks for originality". The Spectator. 3 February 2001. Archived from the original on 28 April 2010 – via FindArticles.
  4. ↑ Major General Sir Roy Redgrave. The Times, 6 July 2011
  5. ↑ "Redgrave, Major General Sir Roy (c 43)". The Old Shirburnian Society. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2026.

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
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