Prem Singh, Azad, Gill, son of Ganda Singh, Village Chuharchak, District Ferozepore. After matriculating from the High School at Jagraon, district Ludhiana, he emigrated to China and thence to America in 1920. According to his own statement he worked as an interpreter in a Magistrate's Court at Hong Kong and about 1921 he obtained a passport to proceed to the U. S. A. to pursue his studies. He joined the Berkeley University in 1921 and about the middle of that year was reported to have been assisting in the Gurmukhi edition of the "Ghadr". He was studying Engineering in Berkeley University up to 1924-25 and was suspected to be one of a party of five men who left for Russia in January or February 1926. He was afterwards stated to have assumed the Russian name of Gromoff and to have joined the Eastern University in Moscow, though according to his own statement he worked there in a chemical factory. In December 1930 he was reported to be unemployed and to have applied in Moscow for a passport to return to India stating that his original one had been lost.