Roy Redgrave (British Army officer)

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Sir

Roy Redgrave
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross

KBE MC (16 September 1925 – 3 July 2011) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.[1]

Military career

Educated at

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

Family life

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]

References

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

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
Military offices
Preceded by
Commandant, British Sector in Berlin

1975–1978
Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong
1978–1980
Succeeded by