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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.
Apr 13, 2023 · A British Colonel named Reginald Edward Harry Dyer ordered troops to surround the compound, situated between houses and narrow lanes, and launched indiscriminate firing on the assembled men, women and children who lacked the means to escape.
Apr 13, 2024 · Exactly 105 years ago, on April 13, 1919, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on a large gathering of people in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. While the British official report stated that 379 people were killed in the incident, some estimates put the death toll in the thousands.
Apr 13, 2019 · How General Dyer’s open and rabid racism reflected the attitudes of the non-official British who had set up shop in colonial India A painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The petition, printed in the Times of India (ToI) on July 20, 1920, is startling.
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,...
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.
Apr 4, 2009 · Troops under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed hundreds of unarmed demonstrators on 13 April 1919.
Aug 27, 2021 · The complex is a memorial dedicated to those who were killed on April 13, 1919 on orders of Brigadier General Reginald Dyer. The Indian Express explains the events of that fateful day as brought out in the Hunter Commission report of 1920, in which Dyer’s mindset behind ordering the killing of defenceless people was brought out.
Nov 18, 2007 · Dyer, Reginald. India. Date: 18 November, 2007. Auteur: Markovits Claude. The man known to posterity as the “Butcher of Amritsar” had a rather chequered career in the Indian Army (the Colonial Army of British India).
