ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BANT&#256 SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1894-1921)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BANT,SIDGH,BH*,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279BANT&#256 SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1894-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was the son of Bh&#257&#299 Bhol&#257 Si&#7749gh &#7692hillo&#7749 and M&#257&#299 Bh&#257g Kaur of village Bihe&#7771&#257, in Hoshi&#257rpur district. He was born on 25 October 1894. As a youth, he had engaged in wrestling and gone out hunting. He had also learnt to read and write Punjabi in the Gurmukh&#299 script. He excelled at performing <i>k&#299rtan</i>, singing the holy hymns. He enlisted in 28th Punjabi Battalion in May 1911 and served with his unit in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) during 1913-15. In 1915, the Battalion moved to Mesopotemia (now Iraq) to take part in the First Great War. Bant&#257 Si&#7749gh was wounded in his right arm on 13 January 1916 and was retired on medical grounds in August 1916.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Back in his village, he took to his ancestral occupation of farming. He was visiting Chakk No. 91 Dhann&#363&#257&#7751a in the newly colonized canal district of Shei<u>kh</u>&#363pur&#257 to see a relation. There he found some volunteers preparing to join Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh Dh&#257rov&#257l&#299's <i>jath&#257</i> on its way to Gurdw&#257r&#257 Janam Asth&#257n at Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib. Bant&#257 Si&#7749gh at once decided to accompany them. Inside the shrine, he was done to death, along with other members of the <i>jath&#257</i> at the bidding of the custodian, Mahant Narai&#7751 D&#257s, on the morning of 20 February 1921.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See NANK&#256&#7750&#256 S&#256HIB MASSACRE</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Shamsher, Gurba<u>kh</u>sh Si&#7749gh, <i>Shah&#299d&#299 J&#299van</i>. Nankana S&#257hib, 1938<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurcharan Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>