What is Reginald Dyer?
{{Infobox military person |birth_name= Reginald Edward Harry Dyer |birth_date= 9 October 1864 |birth_place= [[Murree]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]] |death_date= 24 July 1927 (aged 62) |death_place= [[Long Ashton]], [[Somerset]], [[United Kingdom]] |nickname=''The Butcher of Amritsar'' |allegiance= {{UK}} |serviceyears=1885–1920 |rank= [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] (temporary Brigadier-General) |branch=[[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]] |commands= |unit= [[Seistan Force]] |battles=[[Chitral Expedition]]<br>[[World War I]]<br>[[Third Burmese War]] |awards= [[Mentioned in Despatches]], [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] |laterwork= }} [[Brigadier-General]] '''Reginald Edward Harry Dyer''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (9 October 1864 – 23 July 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]]. He was born just six years after the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]. The rebellion was a war that had been fought by some Indians to end [[British Raj|British rule]]. It had been defeated by the British but had created [[Racial segregation|segregation]], suspicion and fear between the British and the Indians. Although he had been born after the rebellion had ended, the effects had affected Dyer's life. Dyer went to Midleton College, [[County Cork]] between 1875 and 1881. In 1885, after his time at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] he joined the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]] as a [[Lieutenant]],<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=25506|startpage=4082|date=28 August 1885|accessdate=2008-01-04}}</ref> and served in [[riot control]] duties in [[Belfast]] (1886) and the [[Third Burmese War]] (1886–87). He then joined the [[British Indian Army]]. First joining the [[Bengal Staff Corps]] as a Lieutenant in 1887<ref>{{LondonGa