About
Tony (Anthony) Roe, Commandant (retired), joined the Defence Forces in 1958, training as an Air Corps apprentice in Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel. Comdt Roe was serving in Baldonnel when films such as the ‘Blue Max’ and ‘Zepplin’ were being filmed there. He was commissioned as an officer after undergoing a Potential Officers Course and served overseas with the 45th and 55th Infantry Battalions in the Lebanon. He was serving as Chief Technical Stores Officer for the Transport Corps in Clancy Barracks, Dublin, at the time of his retirement in 1986. Comdt Roe was interviewed for the Military Archives Oral History Project on 8th September 2016 and on 3rd February 2017.
