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Was the son of Bhai Deva Singh and Mai Ram Kaur of Ghasitpur village,
in Amritsar district. He learnt to read the Guru Granth Sahib in the
village gurdwara and enlisted in an infantry battalion at Poona in
his early youth. He served for 20 years and had received a gallantry
award before he retired on a monthly pension of Rs 4. Dial Singh had
married but had no offspring.
Shortly before the happenings at Nankana Sahib, he attended a divan
(Sikh religious congregation) at Chakk No. 75 Lahuke where he took
the initiatory vows of the Khalsa at the hands of Bhai Narain Singh,
and offered himself as a volunteer for the jatha or band of Bhai
Lachhman Singh of Dharovali. He fell a martyr at Nankana Sahib on
20 February 1921.
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