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Was born on 1 April 1898, the son of Bhai Mit Singh and Mai Chand
Kaur of Chakk No. 38 Nizampur Deva Singhvala in Sheikhupura district
(now in Pakistan). He read Urdu at the village primary school. He
learnt Gurmukhi on his own and went through the vows of the Khalsa.
As the movement for the reformation of Sikh shrines got under way,
he found himself in the thick of it. During the Dharovali conference
(1-3 October 1920), he collected rations for it and served in the
Guru ka Langar. He participated in the liberation of Gurdwara Khara
Sauda, Chuharkana (30 December 1920) and also offered himself as
a volunteer for the demolished Gurdwara wall in Delhi. On 19 February
1921, he joined the jatha led by Bhai Lachhman Singh of Dharovali
and fell a martyr in the firing on it the next morning. He was survived
by his mother, wife and a two year old daughter. The Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee, besides paying off the family's debt of Rs
410, paid it a pension at Rs 150 per annum.
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