Sajjan Singh Rangroot -

According to oral history passed down in Sikh regiments, Sajjan Singh, the Rangroot , did something unexpected.

When we think of World War I, the images are often fixed: muddy trenches in France, Tommy Atkins with his Enfield rifle, and the poppies of Flanders Fields. But what if we shift the lens? What if the soldier in the mud wasn’t from Manchester, but from Punjab? And what if his last name was a challenge to an empire? sajjan singh rangroot

He didn’t wait for orders in English. He stood up. He roared the Sikh battle cry: * * (He who shouts is blessed... God is Truth!) The Flanking Maneuver Seeing his British Sahibs dead and his fellow Sepoys hesitating, Sajjan Singh took a risk that defies military textbooks. He stripped off his heavy pack, grabbed a handful of grenades, and led a flanking charge through a flooded shell hole that the British had deemed “impassable.” According to oral history passed down in Sikh

The men pointed to the mud-caked, shivering Sikh with frozen beard. “Sajjan Singh, sir. The Rangroot.” What if the soldier in the mud wasn’t

The colonel reportedly paused. He looked at the young soldier who had just done what no veteran had dared. He smiled. “No, son,” he said. “You are no longer a Rangroot. You are a Bahadur (Brave One).”