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This
section provides a list of important and prominent figures
from Anglo-Sikh History which have been listed in alphabetical
order, according to ethnicity and time period.
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Was born on 31 July 1881, the son of Bhai Dula Singh and Mai Hukami,
a Mazhabi Sikh couple of the village of Sutoval, in Amritsar district.
Dula Singh had a large family of five sons and four daughters and
Varyam Singh was the eldest of the sons. In 1893, the family moved
to Chakk No. 64 Bandala Nihaleana in Lyallpur district. Varyam Singh
enlisted in the army during the First Great War (1914-18) and served
in the 8th Battalion. There he underwent the vows of the Khalsa, and
also learnt to read and write Gurmukhi. He returned home after the
war ended and enlisted as an Akali volunteer. He participated in the
liberation of Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh at Peshawar. As the call came
from Nankana, he joined up forthwith and fell a martyr in the firing
upon the jatha inside the compound of Gurdwara Janam Asthan, in the
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