A humble signal station manned only by Havildar Ishar Singh and twenty sepoys of the British Indian Army's 36th Sikhs (now the 4th Battalion, 4th Sikh Regiment, Indian Army) finds itself beset by 10,000 attackers. There is no hope for relief, but even knowing it will come at the cost of their lives, the Sikhs refuse to stand down.
They died for their Queen-Empress. Lest we forget!
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
The 4th battalion of the Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army commemorates the battle every year on 12 September, as Saragarhi Day.
From The History Guy
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