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MATHRA SINGH, son of Bhai Dial Das, was according to Sarup Singh Kaushish, Guru kidn Sdkhidn, a warrior in the retinue of Guru Gobind Singh. He fought valiantly in the battle of Nirmohgarh against the combined armies of the hill chiefs on 7 October 1700 and fell a martyr.
MUL CHAND, son of Raghupat Rai Nijjhar. As the Guru`s nominee resident of Khem Karan in the present day Amritsar district of the Punjab, he was in attendance upon Guru Gobind Singh. According to Sarup Singh Kaushish, Guru ktdn Sdkhtdn, he fought valiantly in the battle of Nadaun (20 March
RAKTAVIJA The Lord destroyed Jarasandha and Kalayavana. The Lord also killed Raktavija (Raktabija) and Kalanemi. (Gauri M. l, p. 224) Raktavija was a demon killed by Durga or Chandi. It is said about this Asura that each drop of his blood, as it fell on the ground produced a
SHERIFF, a Spaniard, who joined the Sikh army as an engineer in 1841 on a salary of Rs 300 per month. He had not been in service more than an year when he fell off his horse and died in Lahore.
SUHELA, BHAI, a Rajput warrior in the retinue of Guru Hargobind (1595-1644), fell a martyr in what is called the battle of Phagwara (1635). M.G.S.
SURAIN SINGH, BHAI (1895-1921), one of the Nankana Sahib martyrs, came from Chakk No. 80 Nizampur Mula Singhvala, district Sheikhupura. He was the second of the six children of Bhai Ram Singh and Mai Hukam Kaur. He learnt Gurmukhi from the village priest and was initiated into the Khalsa Panth
ALLARD, ACHILLE, a young Muslim boy whose parents had been killed in one of the battles of Multan, and who was saved by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, had been born at Sayyidpur in the then province of Multan. General Allard noticed his intelligence and asked the Maharaja\'s permission to adopt
GURDWARA SHAHIDGANJ BABA GURBAKHSH SINGH, a small shrine standing in a narrow bazar behind the Akal Bunga, commemorates the saga of heroism of Baba Gurbakhsh Singh Nihang and his twenty-nine comrades who faced a Durrani horde in December 1764 and fell to the last man fighting in defence of the
AMAR DAS, GURU (1479-1574), the third of the ten Gurus of the Sikh faith, was born into a Bhalla Khatri family on Baisakh sudi 14, 1536 Bk, corresponding to 5 May 1479, at Basarke, a village in present day Amritsar district of the Punjab. His father\'s name was Tej Bhan
DE LA ROCHE, HENRI FRANCOIS STANISLAUS (d. 1842), a Frenchman born in Mauritius, served in the army of Begam Samru. As the force was disbanded by the British after the Begam`s death, he came to Lahore in 1838 and
DAYA CHAND, a devotee of Guru Hargobind (1595-1644), who has been counted by Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri Gur Pratap Suraj Granth, among warriors who fell fighting for the Guru in the battle of Amritsar (1629).
HARVEY, an English physician who was employed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1838, as a medical officer in the army. In the latter half of 1839, he fell sick and left the Punjab.
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