Gerald Philip Crampton

Crampton was commissioned into the British Indian Army, serving with the Northamptonshire Regiment, the Hampshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion, and the 9th Gorkha Rifles, and participated in the campaigns at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia.^[4][5][6][7]

On 10 April 1919, Crampton was passing through Amritsar railway station en route to Peshawar from Dehradun with his regiment when the station came under attack by a large crowd.^[8][9] He was subsequently ordered to remain in Amritsar.^[8][9] On 13 April 1919, he was formally placed in charge of the troops at Jalianwalla Bagh, acting under the direction of Reginald Dyer.^[4][10][11]

• Collett, Nigel (2007). The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer. A&C Black. ISBN 1-85285-575-4.
• Perkins, Roger (1989). The Amritsar Legacy: Golden Temple to Caxton Hall, the Story of a Killing. Picton. ISBN 978-0-948251-44-3.
• Wagner, Kim A. (2019). Amritsar 1919: An empire of fear & the making of a massacre. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24546-2.
• Report of the Committee Appointed in the Government of India to Investigate the Disturbances in the Punjab, Etc (Hunter Inquiry). H.M. Stationery Office. 1920.

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