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Son of Mali Gokal Singh and Mai Lachhman Kaur of Dinga village, in Gujrat district. He lost his mother during infancy. His old grandmother looked after him for about five years and was then sent to live with his maternal aunt in a village in Lyallpur district where a childless neighbour Bhai Piara Singh adopted him as his son. He took the vows of the Khalsa at the age of
15. He adopted tattooing as a profession. On 18 February 1921, when
he learnt that his adoptive father, Piara Singh, had left home to
participate in the liberation of gurdwaras at Nankana Sahib, Charan
Singh, too, took a train and joined the Lyallpur jatha at Sangla
Hill railway junction. The jatha was attacked and massacred upon
reaching Gurdwara Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib on the morning of
20 February 1921.
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