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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.
Jul 19, 2024 · 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,...
Oct 21, 2022 · The 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (aka Amritsar Massacre) was an infamous episode of brutality which saw General Dyer order his troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd of men, women, and children trapped in an abandoned walled garden during a Sikh festival. At least 379 people died, and over 1,500 were injured in the massacre.
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- The 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre in Amritsar, India saw the British General Dyer order his men to fire on an unarmed civilian crowd, killing hun...
- The official death figures for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre were 379, but there were likely more than that. There were also over 1,500 wounded.
- General Dyer ordered his men to shoot civilians in the Jallinawala Bagh Massacre of 1919 because there had been several riots in the Punjab and he...
- Brigadier-General Dyer was retired from the army following the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar, India, in 1919. An official committee found t...
May 28, 2024 · Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in an open space known as the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more.
Apr 4, 2009 · Troops under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed hundreds of unarmed demonstrators on 13 April 1919. The Jallianwalla Bagh in 1919, months after the massacre. More than a million Indians fought for Britain in the First World War, 60,000 of whom were killed.
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Reginald Dyer was disciplined by removal from his appointment, was passed over for promotion and was prohibited from employment in India. He died in 1927.
