Sham Singh, son of Raja Singh. Village Thala, District Jullundur. In
1915 he attempted to cross into the United States from Canada in
company with Rattan Singh (R-36), of village Raipur Doaba, district
Jullundur, but was caught and sent back to Vancouver. Early in 1916
"Many books and papers" most probably Ghadr, were sent to him by one
"Bh. Singh". In 1917 he was a member of the Vancouver Sikh Temple
Committee. In February 1918 he was selected to assassinate Nawab Khan, prosecution witness in the San Francisco Case. In January 1921 he
was elected one of a committee of twenty-five appointed to control the
funds collected in British Columbia on behalf of the families of those who
lost their lives in India in 1914-15. About the end of 1921 he was
reported to be intending to return to India, but he does not appear to have
done so. In 1922 he was reported to be a subscriber to the "Pardesi
Khalsa", Amritsar, and interested himself in the activities of the Canadian
American Press Society of Doaba. At one of the meetings of this Society
he moved a resolution that the Society should grant Rs. 5,000 to send 2
young men to Bengal to learn the art of explosives, but the matter was
held over until the return of Lachman Singh of Khurdpur (L-6) from
California. In 1928 he was President of the Victoria Khalsa Diwan. He
was reported to have been one of the largest subscribers to the fund raised
by Kartar Singh (K-30) in Canada to revive political agitation about the
beginning of 1929. In April of that year, he attended a confidential
meeting of the Doaba Sudhar Society the object of which was to discuss
future plans and to*consider whether Master Mota Singh (M-38) should
be supplied with further funds to carry on the work in India after his
release.