ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KEHAR SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1869-1921)</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="KEHAR,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">&#65279KEHAR SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1869-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was the eldest of the three sons of Bh&#257&#299 J&#299van Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Harn&#257m Kaur of the village of Jarg, in Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257 state. Kehar Si&#7749gh grew up into a strongly-built, fair-complexioned, young man much interested in wrestling and weight-lifting. In 1887, he joined army service during which he rendered distinguished service in several anti-tribesmen operations in the North-West Frontier Province winning seven medals. He was a known marksman in his battalion.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bh&#257&#299 Kehar Si&#7749gh remained a bachelor until towards the end of his service when he married the childless widow of a comrade who had died while still in service. He retired from the army in 1908 after 21 years of meritorious service on a pension of Rs 7 per month.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As the Gurdw&#257r&#257 Reform movement got under way, Bh&#257&#299 Kehar Si&#7749gh registered himself as a volunteer with Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh's <i>jath&#257</i>. As he prepared to set out in obedience to the Panth's call on 19 February 1921, his young son, Darb&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, defying the wishes of his father and entreaties of his grandmother, accompanied him. Both father and son met their end at the hands of the hired assassins of Mahant Narai&#7751 D&#257s inside the sanctum sanctorum of Gurdw&#257r&#257 Janam Asth&#257n, Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib, on the morning of 20 February 1921. The boy, it is said, was burnt alive.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee settled upon his grandmother a pension of Rs 135 per annum.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>See</i> 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 Sahib, 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>