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Shaheed Giani Hari Singh

September 3, 2009 by  
Filed under 1978 Amritsar Shaheeds

Shaheed Giani Hari Singh Shaheed Giani Hari Singh Ji was born in the village of Jandawale, Tehsil Kharian, in Gujrat on 17th June 1923, the day on which Kaar Sewa of the Amritsar Sarowar started. His mother’s name was Mata Bhag Kaur and his father’s name was Giani Gurcharan Singh who ran his own business in Amritsar. His secondary education was in Guru Ramdas Khalsa High School in Amritsar and he took Amrit at the young age of eleven. His father, Giani Gurcharan Singh was a very devoted... read more »

Shaheed Bhai Kewal Singh

September 3, 2009 by  
Filed under 1978 Amritsar Shaheeds

Shaheed Bhai Kewal Singh Shaheed Bhai Kewal Singh Ji was born on 9th March 1953, in the area of Premgarh in Hoshiarpur. His father’s name was Sardar Amar Singh and his mother’s name was Satia Kaur. He spent the first five to seven years of his childhood in Hoshiarpur and in 1960 moved to Calcutta with his father. His father ran a transport company in Calcutta, which was doing quite well. Here, he was put into school but he only passed four classes. His family tried to persuade him to... read more »

Shaheed Bhai Pyara Singh

September 3, 2009 by  
Filed under 1978 Amritsar Shaheeds

Shaheed Bhai Pyara Singh Shaheed Bhai Pyara Singh Ji was born on 2nd February 1954 to Mata Bhago and Sardar Kishan Singh in the village of Bhungruni in Hoshiarpur. He had two sisters and two brothers, one sister is married and the other trained to be a nurse in Africa, and one brother joined the army a month before Bhai Pyara Singh’s Shaheedi. After passing the 11th class, he joined the airforce on 10th July 1971, passing the course with a lot of hard work and motivation. He was a very sociable... read more »

Shaheed Bhai Raghbeer Singh

September 3, 2009 by  
Filed under 1978 Amritsar Shaheeds

Shaheed Bhai Raghbeer Singh Shaheed Bhai Raghbeer Singh Ji was born in the village of Bhagupur in Patti in the district of Amritsar on 10th March 1949 at the house of Sardar Nawab Singh. He was educated in his own village up to the age of fifteen and then joined the army in the Bombay Engineering Group in Kirki, Puna. He stayed on for five years, then resigned from the Army in 1968 and moved to Patiala. I first met Bhai Raghbeer Singh on 14th December 1966 in Kirki, Puna, when I was doing my army... read more »

Shaheed Jathedar Ranbeer Singh

September 3, 2009 by  
Filed under 1978 Amritsar Shaheeds

Shaheed Jathedar Ranbeer Singh Fauji Shaheed Jathedar Ranbeer Singh Ji was born on 17th December 1935 at the house of Sardar Kala Singh in the village of Thraj in the district of Faridhkot. Sardar Kala Singh was a farmer. During the Jaito Morcha he was sentenced to fourteen years in jail, of which he served five. He was also a member of Sardar Bhagat Singh’s Naujwaan Sabha. Bhai Ranbeer Singh’s wife, Sardari Rajwant Kaur, looks after and educates their two children (Daljeet Singh aged... read more »

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