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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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer CB (October 9 1864 – July 23 1927) was a British Indian Army officer responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer is a 2006 historical biography written by Nigel Collett, a former Gurkha officer, which covers the life of Reginald Dyer. The book's title refers to the 1919 massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in which 379 people were shot by troops under the command of Dyer. [1]
- Nigel Collett
- 2006
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,...
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.
Apr 4, 2009 · Reginald Dyer was a British general who ordered his troops to fire on a crowd of unarmed protesters in Amritsar, India, in 1919. The massacre sparked outrage and resistance against British rule and led to his resignation and censure.
