Back ريجينالد دير ARZ Reginald Dyer German Reginald Dyer Esperanto Reginald Dyer Spanish رجینالد دایر Persian Reginald Dyer Finnish Reginald Dyer French Reginald Dyer Irish רג'ינלד דייר HE रेजिनाल्ड एडवर्ड डायर Hindi
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 Dyer c. 1919 | |
| Born | 9 October 1864 Murree, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 23 July 1927 (aged 62) Long Ashton, Somerset, England |
| Allegiance | British Empire |
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| Years of service | 1885–1920 |
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| Spouse(s) | Frances Anne Trevor Ommaney (m. 1888) |
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Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was a British military officer in 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.
As a temporary brigadier-general,[1] he was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place on 13 April 1919 in Amritsar (in the province of Punjab). He has been called "the Butcher of Amritsar",[2] because of his order to fire on a large gathering of people. The official report stated that this resulted in the killing of at least 379 people and the injuring of over a thousand more.[3] Some submissions to the official inquiry suggested a higher number of deaths.[4] After the massacre, he served in the Third Anglo-Afghan war, where he lifted the siege at Thal and inflicted heavy casualties on Afghans.[5]
Dyer later resigned. He was widely condemned for spearheading the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, both in Britain and India, but he became a celebrated hero among some with connections to the British Raj.[6][7]
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- ^ Ferdinand Mount, "They would have laughed", in London Review of Books dated 4 April 2019, Vol. 41, No.7, pp. 9–12
- ^ Collett 2006, p. 263.
- ^ Lansford, Tom, ed. (16 February 2017). ""A" - "Anglo-Afghan War: Third (1919)"". Afghanistan at War: From the 18th Century Durrani Dynasty to the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-59884-759-8.
- ^ Derek Sayer, "British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre 1919–1920," Past & Present, May 1991, Issue 131, pp. 130–164
- ^ Bond, Brian (October 1963). "Amritsar 1919". History Today. Vol. 13, no. 10. pp. 666–676.
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