Reginald Dyer was relieved of command

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Reginald Dyer was a British Army officer notorious for ordering the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, India.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf British Army officer
human
awardReceived Companion of the Order of the Bath
causeOfDeath cerebral hemorrhage
conflict North-West Frontier campaigns
Third Anglo-Burmese War
World War I
continentOfBirth Asia
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
countryOfDeath United Kingdom
countryOfEvent British India
dateOfBirth 1864-10-09
dateOfDeath 1927-07-23
dateOfEvent 1919-04-13
educatedAt Bishop Cotton School, Shimla
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
ethnicGroup British
eventParticipatedIn Jallianwala Bagh massacre
familyName Dyer
forcedToRetire 1920
British Indian Army
givenName Reginald
hasNotableCritic Rabindranath Tagore
Winston Churchill
historicalReputation widely condemned for brutality at Amritsar
investigatedBy Hunter Commission
militaryBranch British Indian Army
militaryRank brigadier general
colonel
notableFor Jallianwala Bagh massacre
numberOfRoundsFired approximately 1650
occupation military officer
soldier
ordered firing on unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh
placeOfBirth Murree
placeOfDeath Long Ashton
placeOfEvent Amritsar
Jallianwala Bagh
Punjab
positionHeld acting brigadier general in Amritsar
officer commanding troops in Amritsar
relievedOfCommand 1919
after Hunter Commission report
religion Christianity
residence England
India
responsibleFor mass killing of civilians at Jallianwala Bagh
subjectOf Hunter Commission inquiry

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Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919
Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919 ("Reginald Dyer was forced to retire")
aftermath

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