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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 (born October 9, 1864, Murree, India—died July 23, 1927, Long Ashton, near Bristol, England) 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.
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Apr 13, 2019 · Reginald Dyer was found responsible for the killing of unarmed Indian Sikhs during the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre and forced into retirement. Bettmann Archive, via Getty Images. The fear and...
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 . Early life. Dyer was born in Murree, in British India, now in Pakistan. He spent his childhood in Shimla and received his early education at the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla.
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.
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3 days ago · Reginald Dyer. Mahatma Gandhi. 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.
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.
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