Third Anglo-Afghan War
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The Third Anglo-Afghan War, also known as the Third Afghan War, the British-Afghan War of 1919, and in Afghanistan as the War of Liberation, was a short war which began on 3 May and ended on 8 August
Soldiers in action at Kohat during the war
Afghan warriors in 1922
A Royal Air Force Handley Page Type O bomber, with its wings folded back
2nd/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, North-West Frontier 1923
Reginald Dyer
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Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, was a British military officer in the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army, but he
Third Anglo-Afghan War
…on Jalalabad and have it move up to Kurram. While part of the division was detached to defend Kohat, the 45th Infantry Brigade under Brigadier General Reginald Dyer—who had been at the centre of the Amritsar massacre—set out to relieve Eustace's force at Thal. Dyer's force consisted of only one British battalion…
Dyer c. 1919
Major Reginald Dyer at the Delhi Durbar of 1903