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[[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] '''Reginald Edward Harry Dyer''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|CB}} (9 October 1864{{snd}}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
As a temporary [[Brigadier (India)|brigadier-general]],<ref name="temp-bg" /> he was responsible for the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]] that took place on 13 April 1919 in [[Amritsar]] (in the province of [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]). He has been called "''the Butcher of Amritsar''",{{sfn|Collett|2006}} 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.<ref>[[Ferdinand Mount]], [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/ferdinand-mount/they-would-have-laughed "They would have laughed"], in ''London Review of Books'' dated 4 April 2019, Vol. 41, No.7, pp. 9–12</ref> Some submissions to the official inquiry suggested a higher number of deaths.{{sfn|Collett|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XuQC5pgzCw4C&pg=PA263 263]}}
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