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	'''Nigel Anthony Collett''' (born 20 October 1952) is a former [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)\|lieutenant-colonel]] in the [[British army]] and author of ''[[The Butcher of Amritsar]]''. He is a contributor to the ''[[Asian Review of Books]]'' and to ''[[China Daily]]'' and is a moderator for the [[Hong Kong International Literary Festival]], for which he was instrumental in promoting the first event which had a focus on [[Gay and lesbian literature\|gay and lesbian writing]] in 2008.<ref name="Tjhung 2009"/>		'''Nigel Anthony Collett''' (born 20 October 1952) is a former [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)\|lieutenant-colonel]] in the [[British army]] and author of ''[[The Butcher of Amritsar]]''. He is a contributor to the ''[[Asian Review of Books]]'' and to ''[[China Daily]]'' and is a moderator for the [[Hong Kong International Literary Festival]], for which he was instrumental in promoting the first event which had a focus on [[Gay and lesbian literature\|gay and lesbian writing]] in 2008.<ref name="Tjhung 2009"/>
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	==References==		==References==
	{{Reflist\|colwidth=30em\|refs=<ref name="Tjhung 2009">{{cite news\|last=Tjhung\|first=Mark\|title=Nigel Collett interview\|url=http://www.timeout.com.hk/books/features/21197/nigel-collett-interview.html\|newspaper=Time Out\|date=4 March ~~2022~~}}</ref>		{{Reflist\|colwidth=30em\|refs=<ref name="Tjhung 2009">{{cite news\|last=Tjhung\|first=Mark\|title=Nigel Collett interview\|url=http://www.timeout.com.hk/books/features/21197/nigel-collett-interview.html\|newspaper=Time Out\|date=4 March 2009}}</ref>

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'''Nigel Anthony Collett''' (born 20 October 1952) is a former [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] in the [[British army]] and author of ''[[The Butcher of Amritsar]]''. He is a contributor to the ''[[Asian Review of Books]]'' and to ''[[China Daily]]'' and is a moderator for the [[Hong Kong International Literary Festival]], for which he was instrumental in promoting the first event which had a focus on [[Gay and lesbian literature|gay and lesbian writing]] in 2008.<ref name="Tjhung 2009"/>

==Education and military career==
Collett attended the [[Commonweal School|Commonweal School, Swindon, England]] from 1963–70<ref name="Linkedin"/> and [[St Peter's College, Oxford]], taking a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History in 1973. He served in the [[Devonshire and Dorset Regiment]] and in 1974 attended the ''[[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]]''. In 1983–84 he attended the Army Staff College, Camberley. In 2002 he earned a [[Master of Arts]] in Biography at the [[University of Buckingham]].<ref name="Linkedin"/>

From 1981–82 he served as a company commander with the Western Frontier Regiment on secondment to the [[Military of Oman|Land 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 the [[6th 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 www.gurkha.com.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.<ref name="Biography of Nigel Collett"/>

==Published works==
*''A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi''; {{ISBN|978-0950934518}}.<ref name="Collett 1986"/>
*''A Nepali-English-Nepali Dictionary''; {{ISBN|978-0950934525}}.<ref name="Collett 1994"/>
*''[[The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer]]'' published by [[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]] in 2005; {{ISBN|1 85285 457 X}}. It is a biography of [[Reginald Dyer]], the man responsible for the massacre at [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre|Jallianwala Bagh]] and was generally well received.<ref name="Copley 2006"/>
*''[[Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing]]'' published by Signal 8 Press, Hong Kong in 2014; {{ISBN|978-988-15542-6-0}}.
*''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; {{ISBN|978-962-937-557-7}}

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs=<ref name="Tjhung 2009">{{cite news|last=Tjhung|first=Mark|title=Nigel Collett interview|url=http://www.timeout.com.hk/books/features/21197/nigel-collett-interview.html|newspaper=Time Out|date=4 March 2022}}</ref>

<ref name="Linkedin">
{{cite web|last=Collett|first=Nigel Anthony|title=Nigel Anthony Collett|url=http://hk.linkedin.com/pub/nigel-anthony-collett/18/501/b18|publisher=Linkedin|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130721192944/http://hk.linkedin.com/pub/nigel-anthony-collett/18/501/b18|archivedate=21 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="Biography of Nigel Collett">
{{cite web|last=International|first=Gurkha|title=The People|url=http://www.gurkha.com.hk/the_people/hongkong.html|publisher=Gurkha International|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806203318/http://gurkha.com.hk/the_people/hongkong.html|archivedate=6 August 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="Collett 1986">
{{cite book|last=Collett|first=Nigel|title=A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi|year=1986|publisher=Burgess & Son|isbn=978-0950934518}}
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<ref name="Collett 1994">
{{cite book|last=Collett|first=Nigel Anthony|title=English-Nepali-English Dictionary|year=1994|publisher=N.A.Collett|isbn=9780950934525}}
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<ref name="Copley 2006">
{{cite journal|last=Copley|first=Antony|title=The Butcher of Amritsar General Reginald Dyer by Nigel Collett|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|year=2006|volume=16|issue=1|pages=101–103|jstor=25188606|doi=10.1017/S1356186305305918|s2cid=163032682 }}</ref>}}

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