Bhai Chet Singh

Bhai Chet Singh (1891 - 1921), son of Bhai Javala Singh and Mata Ram Kaur, was born on 28 May 1891 at Bundala, in Amritsar district. In 1899 the family migrated westward to Chakk No. 64 Nihaleana, in the newly colonized Lyallpur district. Chet Singh studied up to the 5th standard in the village school. He grew up into a handsome, tall and fair skinned young man interested in manly sports. He took the vows of the Khalsa in early manhood and participated in the liberation of Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh, Peshawar (5 February 1921). Returning home, he learnt that his younger brother Kehar Singh had registered himself with the Jatha of Bhai Lachhman Singh Dharovali set to liberate Gurdwara Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib. Chet Singh persuaded Kehar Singh to stay back and went himself to take his place in the Jathaa which was massacred wholesale by the hirelings of the local custodian, Mahant Narain Das, on 20 February 1921. See NANKANA SAHIB MASSACRE 1. Shamsher, Gurbakhsh Sirigh. ShahidiJivan. Nankana Sahib, 1938