Nigel Collett
Nigel Anthony Collett(born 20 October 1952) is a formerlieutenant-colonelin theBritish Armyand author ofThe Butcher of Amritsar.He is a contributor to theAsian Review of Booksand toChina Dailyand is a moderator for theHong Kong International Literary Festival,for which he was instrumental in promoting the first event which had a focus ongay and lesbian writingin 2008.[1]
Education and military career
[edit]Collett attended theCommonweal School, Swindon, Englandfrom 1963 to 1970[2]andSt Peter's College, Oxford,taking a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History in 1973. He served in theDevonshire and Dorset Regimentand in 1974 attended theRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst.In 1983–84 he attended the Army Staff College, Camberley. In 2002 he earned aMaster of Artsin Biography at theUniversity of Buckingham.[2]
From 1981 to 1982 he served as a company commander with the Western Frontier Regiment on secondment to theLand Forces of the Sultan of Oman.In 1983 he was an instructor with the British Military Advisory Team in Zimbabwe. In 1984 he was promoted to major and transferred to the6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles,and was posted to Hong Kong, where he served from 1985 to 1992, including tours as brigade major 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade and brigade major Brigade of Gurkhas. In 1991, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and was given command of the 6th in Hong Kong and was garrison commander for the British Forces in Brunei from 1992 to 1993.
Since 1994, he has been managing director of Gurkha International Manpower Services Ltd and Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd, both in Hong Kong; website gurkha.hk. He is vice chairman of the Hong Kong and China Branch of the Royal British Legion and vice chairman of the Asia Africa Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.[3]
Published works
[edit]- A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi;ISBN978-0950934518.[4]
- A Nepali-English-Nepali Dictionary;ISBN978-0950934525.[5]
- The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyerpublished byContinuumin 2005;ISBN1 85285 457 X.It is a biography ofReginald Dyer,the man responsible for the massacre atJallianwala Baghand was generally well received.[6]
- Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wingpublished by Signal 8 Press, Hong Kong in 2014;ISBN978-988-15542-6-0.
- A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal,published by City University of Hong Kong Press in 2018;ISBN978-962-937-557-7
References
[edit]- ^Tjhung, Mark (4 March 2009)."Nigel Collett interview".Time Out.
- ^ab Collett, Nigel Anthony."Nigel Anthony Collett".Linkedin. Archived fromthe originalon 21 July 2013.
- ^ International, Gurkha."The People".Gurkha International. Archived fromthe originalon 6 August 2013.
- ^ Collett, Nigel (1986).A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi.Burgess & Son.ISBN978-0950934518.
- ^ Collett, Nigel Anthony (1994).English-Nepali-English Dictionary.N.A.Collett.ISBN9780950934525.
- ^ Copley, Antony (2006). "The Butcher of Amritsar General Reginald Dyer by Nigel Collett".Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.16(1): 101–103.doi:10.1017/S1356186305305918.JSTOR25188606.S2CID163032682.
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- British military writers
- Devonshire and Dorset Regiment officers
- Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
- Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
- Alumni of the University of Buckingham
- Living people
- Royal Gurkha Rifles officers
- Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
- 1952 births
- 20th-century British Army personnel