Surat Singh, alias Surat Singh, Gill, son of Lal Singh, Jat, of Village Chetanpura, P. S. Majitha, District Amritsar. He read up to the Middle standard in the Majitha Mission School, and later passed the Matriculation Examination from the Government High School, Amritsar. He went to America in February 1920 with Partap Singh, son of S. B. Captain Mit Singh of Chetanpura, and was studying Engineering in March 1927 at the University of Berkeley. Became Editor of the United States of India, a Ghadr publication, in 1927 on a salary of Rs. 100 a month in November 1928 wrote a letter to the editor of the 'Kirti' from P.O. Box 258, Berkeley, California, extolling the latter journal as an exponent of the true facts of life among the Indian masses. Acted as Chairman of the Ghadr Party meeting at Stockton on 16th January 1929 and at a meeting of the Ghadr Party at the Forester's Hall in Marysville on the 11th of August 1929, when speeches urging violent revolution were made. Is reported to have made a seditious speech at an All-Parties meeting held at Stockton on 6th January 1930. Early in May 1930 was reported to be working in the Ghadr Ashram and to be editing the "Hindustan Ghadr". Towards the close of 1930 he was reported to have fallen out with the Ghadr Party and to have expressed his intention of severing his connection. It appears that he had married an American girl and demanded an increased salary' from the Ghadr Party which the latter refused to pay. He accordingly settled down to farm in the Imperial Valley.

Description : Age about 35 years; wheat complexion; strong build; tall.