Bhagat Singh alias B. S. Thind, son of Buta Singh, of Village Taragarh, P. S. Jandiala, District Amritsar. Was once a student of the Khalsa College, Amritsar. He was in Manila in 1912 whence he proceeded to the U. S. A. and tended at Seattle. He joined the Ghadr Party and at once became a strong supporter and propagandist. In 1916 and 1917 he delivered speeches all over Oregon and collected subscriptions. He was made General Secretary of the Ghadr Party in Oregon by the late Ram Chandra of Peshawar (then leader of the Ghadr Party) in December 1916. At the beginning of 1917 he went over to the Bhagwan Singh faction and was looked upon as the leader of the revolutionary party at Tinnton Oregon. He then paid a flying visit to McNeill's Island to see Bhagwan Singh, of village Viring, district Amritsar (formerly a prominent member of the Ghadr Party), Santokh Singh of village Dodher, district Amritsar (since dead), Tarak Nath Das of Mojpara, 24 Parganas (one of the leading figures in the revolutionary party on the West Coast of America shortly before and during the Great War) and Gopal Singh (G-25), who were there in jail. About the end of May 1918, he went to San Francisco and paid a visit to Bishan Singh Hindi (B-72) and Godha Ram (G-21) in jail. He left the place for Linnton after a month as he did not get a warm reception at the Ghadr Ashram and was looked upon as a turn-coat. In July 1918 he joined the United States Army and served till January 1919. obtained naturalisation as an American citizen. After leaving the Army his energies were chiefly airected towards supplying the wants of Santokh Singh, Bhagwan Singh and Gopal Singh who were in jail and with whom he was in regular correspondence. In January 1920 he was again employed in the West Oregon Lumber Company at Linnton. In 1921 the U. S. authorities revoked his citizenship using his case as a test for all similar cases in which Indians had been naturalised. Through this Bhagat Singh acquired considerable notoriety. In 1923 he married an American lady, formerly Mrs. Inez Marie Pier Bullen, and was hereafter known as Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind. From 1925-1927 he delivered a series of lectures in and about St. Louis, Missouri, Kansas City and Detroit which began with psychology and ended with a bitter tirade against the British rule in India. In March 1931 he was reported to have founded in Amritsar the Indo-American Medical Institute in conjunction with one Dr. Randhir Singh Sandhu (R-28). He continues to lecture all over the U. S. A. in the capacity of a psychologist and occasionally intersperses his spiritual teachings with political references of an objectionable nature. He has not been connected with the Ghadr Party for a long time.

Description : Age 38 years (1927); height 5-10".