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	UMRAO SINGH VC
		Umrao Singh won his award for valour in what all gunners regard as their near-sacred duty - defence of their guns.
		Umrao Singh continued his military service after recovery from his injuries and was subsequently promoted subadar-major.
		Umrao Singh died on the 21 November 2005 at the Army Research and Referral Hospital, New Delhi, after a prolonged illness.
	www.victoriacross.org.uk /bbumraos.htm (544 words)

	Guardian \| Umrao Singh, VC
		Umrao Singh, who has died in India aged 85, was the last survivor of the Asian subcontinent's non-Ghurkha VCs from the second world war.
		A Hindu Jat, and the son of a farmer, Singh was born at Palra, near Rhotak, in the Punjab.
		Singh's body was taken by the Indian army to his home village, where a crowd of more than a thousand, including representatives of the military, the Indian government and the British high commission, had gathered for his funeral.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5345288-103684,00.html (812 words)

	Defenceindia : News : India loses its last Victoria Cross awardee
		Umrao Singh may have fought someone else's battle during World War II, but by being awarded the Victoria Cross, he served as a constant reminder of the critical role of Indians in fighting international fascism in the most horrific war in history.
		Umrao may have fought for the British, but he retired in 1965 from the Indian Army and five years later was given the honorary rank of Captain.
		On the night of 15-16 December 1944, Umrao Singh was a detachment commander in a section of the 33 Mountain Battery of the Indian Artillery fighting under the legendary British Commander General Slim.
	www.defenceindia.com /21-nov-2k5/news26.html (580 words)

	Photo Box
		Her father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, came from an aristocratic family in north India's' Punjab and her mother, Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, was a Hungarian of upper class background.
		Umrao Singh (1870-1954), an anti-British nationalist, was a reader of philosophy and literature, as well as a talented photographer.
		Vivan Sundaram (born 1943) is the grandchild of Umrao Singh and nephew of Amrita Sher-Gil.
	photo.box.sk /news.php3?id=10166 (1392 words)

	Indian American Center for Political Awareness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Relatives of Indian World War II soldier and Victoria Cross holder Umrao Singh carry his body, wrapped in the Indian tricolor, towards his funeral pyre for cremation in the village of Palra, some 60 miles north of New Delhi, on Nov. 22.
		Singh was given the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest gallantry award, for his role in beating off repeated attacks by Japanese troops on a British Army artillery unit in Burma (now Myanmar) during World War II.
		Singh's battery came under heavy fire from Japanese guns and mortars for 90 minutes, before two companies of Japanese troops attacked the position in the first of four assaults.
	www.iacfpa.org /p_news/nit/iacpa-archieve/2005/12/02/Delhi_Diary150701.shtml (362 words)

	Captain Umrao_Singh, Victoria Cross - 1920 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The citation declared: "By his personal example and magnificent bravery Havildar Umrao Singh set a supreme example of gallantry and devotion to duty." Singh was invested with the Victoria Cross by King George VI at Buckingham Palace on October 15 1945.
		Umrao Singh was a Hindu Jat born on November 21 October 1920 at Palra, near Rhotak in the Punjab.
		Captain Umrao Singh, holder of the Victoria Cross, was born on July 11, 1920.
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /Obituaries/Umrao_Singh.asp (1082 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Obituaries
		Umrao Singh was the only non-commissioned officer from either the Royal Artillery or the Indian Artillery to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War.
		Umrao Singh was born in 1920 into a poor farming family in Paka village in Rohtak district, some 50km north of Delhi.
		In 1942 Singh was promoted to havildar in the 33 Mountain Battery Brigade, which eventually became part of Viscount Slim's 14th Army poised for a right-flank offensive against Lt-Gen Sakurai Seizo's 28th Japanese Army along Burma's western coastline between the Irrawaddy river and the Bay of Bengal.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article328929.ece (854 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		Obsessed with the camera, Umrao Singh had taken many intimate photographs of his Hungarian wife Marie Antoinette (1881-1948), daughters Amrita (1913-1941) and Indira (1914-1975), who is Sundaram’s mother, and of himself, fully clothed and in loin cloth.
		Umrao Singh, with his bare body and flowing beard and mane, becomes a figure akin to Jokanaan before his Salome-like wife.
		What used to be the photograph of the living room in their Paris flat becomes peopled with the figures of an aged and ascetic Umrao Singh and a fashionably-attired Amrita.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030313/asp/calcutta/story_1760755.asp (546 words)

	The Hindu : The real and the representative
		The photomontage on p.17 shows Marie Antoinette holding her cat as Umrao Singh, his hand pulling the string of the camera shutter, looks on.
		On p.28-27, an Umrao Singh self-portrait incorporates Amrita in a party dress while her lover, painter Boris Taslitzy overlooks the tableau from a painting on the wall.
		Umrao Singh, as Vivan points out, is one of the pioneers of modern Indian photography.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/lr/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200280400.htm (1185 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Honorary Captain Umrao Singh, VC
		Honorary Captain Umrao Singh, who died yesterday aged 85, won the Victoria Cross in Burma during the Second World War; and 50 years later he complained to John Major about the poor pensions enjoyed by holders of the VC.
		As a havildar on December 15/16 1944, Singh was in charge of one gun in the Kaladan Valley when it came under heavy fire from Japanese 74 mm guns.
		John Major mentioned Singh when he told an otherwise glum Conservative Party conference that the VC holders' pension was to be significantly increased.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/11/22/db2201.xml (790 words)

	Not for sale- News-Sections-TIMES NOW.tv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Umrao Singh's grandson, Sukhbir Yadav says, "We used to get offers for the cross even when my grandfather was alive.
		Umrao Singh's memories ring loud in his village Palra in Haryana too.
		But for Umrao Singh's family and his village, it is a strong relationship of pride and valour - one that they are not willing to give up at any price.
	www.timesnow.tv /articleshow/1701998.cms (363 words)

	Umrao Singh
		Mr Umrao Singh is one of the premier Sikh sports administrators in the country.
		Though Mr Umrao Singh is known for his association with athletics, it was not his first love.
		Mr Umrao Singh is a close observer of the Indian sports scene which suffers from various ills.
	www.punjabilok.com /misc/sports/umrao_singh.htm (467 words)

	Sports Personalities of Punjab
		Milkha Singh is sad to find that his exploits and achievements have not gone so far to inspire the younger generation.
		Milkha Singh was taken to the VIP gallery and introduced to Pakistan President General Ayub who was himself present at the stadium in Lahore.
		Inder Singh was recalled to the coaching camp in 1971-72 but could not attend it because he was not fully fit.
	www.pcschicago.org /Punjab/sportspersonalities.htm (9426 words)

	The Tribune - Magazine section - Saturday Extra
		The drive was held on the orders of the Chief of the Army Staff, General J.J. Singh, who had attended the last rites of the brave son of the soil.
		All that the old-timers remember is that the honours that came to Subedar Major Umrao Singh after he received the Victoria Cross for exemplary courage in World War II had a major impact on the minds of the youth.
		History has it that in December 1944, when World War II was on, Subedar Major Umrao Singh, fighting for the British in the Kaladhan valley in Burma, was seriously injured with little chances of survival.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20061111/saturday/main1.htm (1797 words)

	Captain Umrao Singh, VC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 33 Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery, in which Havildar Umrao Singh was a field-gun detachment commander, was subjected to a sustained bombardment from Japanese 75mm guns and heavy mortars for one and a half hours on December 16, immediately before his gun position was attacked by two companies of Japanese infantry.
		The citation for the award of the Victoria Cross read: Havildar Umrao Singh set a supreme example of gallantry and devotion to duty.” His gun was still fit for firing and was in action again that day.
		Umrao Singh was born in the village of Paka in the Rohtak district of the Punjab, an area now part of the Indian state of Haryana.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1526840/posts (1153 words)

	Kuchesar at AllExperts
		Chhatar Singh was very brave; he served under Mirza Ali Beg, the Muslim lord of nearby Chitsauna, obtaining both power and a large estate.
		Although she was childless, Bhup Kumari's husband Raja Khusal Singh, nephew of Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh, laid claim to the estates; this was disputed by other claimants.
		In 1898, Umrao Singh died and Rao Giriraj Singh inherited the portion held by him.
	en.allexperts.com /e/k/ku/kuchesar.htm (720 words)

	Subedar Major & Hony Captain(Retd) Umrao Singh, VC, Indian Airforce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Kaladan valley in Burma, on 15th December 1944, Havildar Umrao Singh was in charge of a gun in an advance section of his battery when it was subjected to heavy fire from 75 mm guns and mortars for 1.5 hours prior to being attacked by two companies of Japanese.
		Six hours later, when a counter-attack restored the position, he was found in an exhausted state beside his gun and almost unrecognisable with seven severe wounds and ten dead Japanese around him.
		By his personal example and magnificent bravery, Havildar Umrao Singh set a supreme example of gallantry and devotion to duty.
	www.geocities.com /siafdu/vic33.html (213 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		NEW DELHI: World War II gunner Umrao Singh, India’s only surviving recipient of the Victoria Cross, is battling cancer in a hospital ward but says he has yet to surrender in the biggest battle of his life.
		“Umrao Singh is a celebrity, a true Indian hero.” Singh, who holds the honorary rank of army captain and draws a service pension from India’s military, is the only gunner in India’s military history to have one of the 1,355 Victoria Crosses given out.
		Singh received the medal after seeing action in Myanmar’s savagely-contested Kaladan Valley, where he saved his artillery piece after fighting off Japanese soldiers armed only with his gun’s ram rod.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=July2005&file=World_News2005072023339.xml (464 words)

	DNA - India - Last surviving Victoria Cross holder dies at 85 - Daily News & Analysis
		NEW DELHI: Honorary Captain Umrao Singh, the last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross and probably the most recognisable face of Republic Day parade through the past five decades, is dead.
		Singh won the British Empire’s highest gallantry award by staging a life-defying fight against Japanese in the bloody battlefield of Burma during the World War II.
		In 1982, Umrao beat off a British antique dealer’s efforts to buy off his VC medal, saying it would be a disgrace to the award and memory of men who fell by him during history’s bloodiest war.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=10734 (547 words)

	Central Chronicle--Bhopal
		Singh was addressing a meeting of Inspectors General, Deputy Inspectors General and Superintendents of Police at the Mantralaya here today.
		Minister of State for Home Nagendra Singh lauded the functioning of the police saying that arrests of a large number of dacoits under the anti dacoits drive is a creditable achievement.
		Singh said that senior police officers should undertake field inspections to boost the morals of the police personnel.
	www.centralchronicle.com /20061010/1010021.htm (888 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: 1944 A War Story: Umrao risked his life, a hero then and now
		In the Kaladan valley in Burma, on the intervening night of December 15 and 16, 1944, Havildar Umrao Singh was in charge of one gun in an advanced section of his battery when it was subjected to heavy fire prior to being attacked by two companies of Japanese forces.
		Though twice wounded by grenades in the first attack, he held off the second enemy attack by skilful control of his detachment's small firepower and fired with a Bren gun to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese who had come within a five yards range.
		Singh was honoured with the Victoria Cross, the highest gallantry award of that time, which he received from the King of England in a ceremony in London in 1945.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/jul/06sepoy.htm (304 words)

	Punjabi Sports Personalities
		It may be recalled that Dalip Singh besides being a fine athlete was a good hockey player also.
		Milkha Singh himself admits that he was popular because of being a Sikh.
		But Milkha Singh was running at a dangerously fast speed, so he thought of slowing down a bit.
	www.sikhwomen.com /Community/India/sportspersonalities.htm (9426 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Chief of Army staff Gen J J Singh salutes the mortal remains of Victoria Cross Umrao Singh at Palra village, 100 km from New Delhi, on Tuesday.
		The mortal remains of the Victoria Cross winner Captain (Honourary) Umrao Singh, were consigned to flames with full military and state honours in his native Palra village amid patriotic atmosphere as thousands of people rented the air with nationalistic slogans.
		Making a major announcement on the occasion, General JJ Singh disclosed that a special recruitment rally would be organised in the village within a week in which 25 youths of this village would be recruited in the Army.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051123/main7.htm (507 words)

	HARJIT SINGH MANN v. S. UMRAO SINGH AND OTHERS [1980] INSC 231; [1980] 2 SCR 501; [1980] 1 SCC 713; AIR 1980 SC 701 (14 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Singh Mann is directed against the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dated February 7, 1978, dismissing the petition by which he had challenged the election of Umrao Singh, respondent No. 1, hereinafter referred to as the respondent, from the Nakodar constituency of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.
		Jit Ram did not therefore have the capacity of reading or stating the time correctly, and it may in fact be said that what he deposed about the presentation of the nomination papers a couple of minutes or a minute before 3 p.m.
		Surendra Lal Jha and others that if a Minister redress the grievances of a class of the public or people of a locality or renders them any help, on the eve of an election, it is not a corrup practice unless he obtains promises from the voters in return, as a condition for his help.
	www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INSC/1980/231.html (3660 words)

	SikhNet News - News Relating to Sikhs
		Until now, it was almost unknown that Amrita’s father Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, a Sikh aristocrat who married the Hungarian pianist and singer Marie Antoinette Gottesmann in Lahore in 1912, was a pioneer of early photography in India.
		Umrao Singh took up the camera in 1890 and left behind an archive of several hundred images, mainly carefully composed portraits of his wife, two daughters and himself, to rival the works of Raja Lala Deen Dayal and Bourne and Shepherd.
		Umrao Singh was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit, an avowed vegetarian and yoga practitioner, a sort of reclusive Tolstoyan figure.
	www.sikhnet.com /Sikhnet/news.nsf/RecentNewsHTML/2CC452FA829F8989872572180070683A!OpenDocument (1774 words)

	Amrita Shergil - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
		Her father, Umrao Singh SherGil, scholar and savant, learned in Sanskrit as well as in Persian, came of an old Sikh family of the village of Majitha, in Amritsar district of the Punjab.
		Princess Bamba was the daughter of the last Sikh king of the Punjab, Maharaja Duleep Singh, who after the occupation of his territory by the British and exile from the Punjab had been that time living in England.
		Marie Antoinette made the acquaintance of Umrao Singh in Shimla and this acquaintance led to marriage.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Amrita_Shergil (2448 words)

	SSNews
		With the death of Capt Umrao Singh, the number of surviving VC winners has come down to just 12.
		Till he was alive, Capt Umrao Singh was a legend in his home district of Jind in Haryana.
		According to records, Capt Umrao Singh was awarded the VC for fighting off repeated attacks made on his section by the Japanese during the Arakan advance in December 1944.
	www.sikhsangat.org /publish/article_685.shtml (1135 words)

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