Major-General Sir Roy Michael Frederick Redgrave, KBE MC (16 September 1925 – 3 July 2011) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.
[1] 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.