General Reginald Dyer

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Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry DyerCB (October 9, 1864 – July 23, 1927) in Murree city then a popular hill station and summer resort of Punjab, now in Pakistan. He was raised in Shimla and receiving his early education at its Bishop Cotton School. Murree had earlier been the summer capital of Punjab before Shimla became the summer capital of the British Raj.

The name Murree is derived from 'marhi', "high place"

The man who ordered the massacre at Jallianvalle Bagh. Wife Annie Dyer.

By dying in 1927 he escaped the punishment that Udham Singh had no doubt planned for him. Udham Singh would instead assasinate Sir Micheal O'Dwyer who had been the British official in charge at Amritsar during the massacre.

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