Battan Singh, alias Natha, son of Gopal Singh, Village Sirhali Kalan, District Hoshiarpur. Went to Canada in 1907 and in 1913 was appointed Assistant Compositor in the 'Sansar' published by Dr. Sundar Singh in Victoria, and subscribed to the "Ghadr" newspaper. In 1916 he was converted to Christianity by some missionaries but was later abandoned by them. As he was discovered to be insincere. He was closely connected with the bomb case in which Gurdit Singh or Purhiran, Hoshiarpur (G-47), was convicted for the second time and sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment. He was suspected to have associated with Gurdit Singh in the making of explosives but there was not sufficient evidence for his arrest. He was readmitted to the Sikh fold in December 1919, and in the following year became a member of the United India Home Rule League of Canada. In April 1921 he along with Arjan Singh of Jhingar, District Jullundur (A-30) started a paper known as the "Bande Mataram" in Vancouver, but it failed utterly as a result of a quarrel between the editors. There is no doubt that he adhered to Ghadr doctrines. He returned to India in January 1922. In September 1924 he was convicted and sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment under Section 124-A, I. P. C.