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<p class="C1">&#65279M&#362L&#256 SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1880-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was the son of Bh&#257&#299 J&#299van Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Gul&#257b Kaur of Vall&#257 village, in Amritsar district. He learnt Gurmukh&#299 during his childhood and was also married young, but remained childless. He then went abroad to Singapore where he served in the 67th Battalion for 16 years. Retiring as a <i>havild&#257r</i> (sergeant) on a pension of Rs 10 per month, he came back to India, and settled at Chakk No. 10 Thoth&#299&#257&#7749, in Shei<u>kh</u>&#363pur&#257 district (now in Pakistan).</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	During the First Great War (1914-18), the government was finding it difficult to get enough Sikh recruits needed to reinforce its expanded army, and even resorted to undeclared conscription. Bh&#257&#299 M&#363l&#257 Si&#7749gh went around the villages and supplied 25 recruits in the hope of getting a land grant as a reward from the government, but was disappointed. This and the imposition of martial law instead in the Punjab led to a change of loyalties on his part and he joined the ranks of the Ak&#257l&#299 reformers. He was one of the Ak&#257l&#299 <i>jath&#257</i> led by Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh Dh&#257rov&#257l&#299 and massacred at Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib by the hired assassins of Mahant Narai&#7751 D&#257s on 20 February 1921.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	<i> See </i> NANK&#256&#7750&#256 S&#256HIB MASSACRE</p>
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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>
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