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Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was an officer of the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army but he soon transferred to the presidency armies of India.
Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB, was an Indian-born British officer who served in the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted Indian Army in colonial India. Known as the “Butcher of Amritsar”, he led the troops that committed the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, Punjab, on April 13, 1919.
Reginald Dyer was a British general remembered for his role in the Massacre of Amritsar in India, in 1919. Dyer was commissioned in the West Surrey Regiment in 1885 and subsequently transferred to the Indian Army. He campaigned in Burma (Myanmar) in 1886–87 and took part in a blockade of Waziristan.
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Apr 13, 2019 · On April 13, 1919, Gen. Reginald Dyer led a group of British soldiers to Jallianwala Bagh, a walled public garden in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar. Several thousand unarmed civilians,...
Feb 24, 2006 · On April 13, 1919, General Reginald Dyer led a force of Indian (Gurkha) soldiers into Jallianwala Bagh, a large walled space in the city of Amritsar in Punjab. Without any warning, Dyer ordered them to fire on a crowd holding a political meeting.
Oct 15, 2023 · General Reginald Dyer’s premeditated killing of hundreds of unarmed Indians gathered at Jallianwala Bagh on Baisakhi Day of 1919 was a watershed event in the Freedom Movement. It at once alienated and appalled nationalists and bitterly divided British opinion.
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Oct 21, 2022 · The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in the context of violent riots in April 1919 in the Punjab and elsewhere. The British authorities had lost control of Amritsar on 11 April, and Dyer had been sent by the Governor of Bengal to restore order.
