Born in 1922, Reginald Roy was a professor emeritus at UVic's History Department when he wrote Sherwood Lett: His Life and Times (UBC Alumni Association, 1991), a biographical tribute to Lett, a former Chancellor of UBC who rose to the chief justiceship of B.C. The Sherwood Lett Papers reside in the Vancouver City Archives. As a military historian who served with the Cape Breton Highlanders from 1939 to 1945, Roy also published Ready for the Fray, Sinews of Steel, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965, 1944: The Canadians in Normandy, Telegrams of the North West Rebellion (with Desmond Morton) and a history of the Vancouver Club. His 1977 biography of Major-General George R. Pearkes, Lieutenant-Governor of B.C. from 1945 to 1960, is For Most Conspicuous Bravery. Roy wrote David Lam: A Biography in 1997 and a biography of Canuck's owner Frank Griffiths in 1998. The latter was commissioned by the Griffiths family.

[BCBW 2003] "Biography"

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
For Most Conspicuous Bravery: A Biography of Major-General George R. Pearkes, V.C., Through Two World Wars
The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965n
Sherwood Lett: His Life and Times