Wattan Singh, Panesar, son of Lal Singh, carpenter, of Village Kangaryan, P. S. Phillaur, District Jullundur. Prior to his departure for America there was nothing to his discredit in his home district. He studied at the Universities of Berkeley and Columbia during 1926-27. In 1927 he took part in the meetings to collect subscriptions for the Shanghai Defense Fund. In 1928 and 1929 he was the Secretary of the Hindustani Young Men's Association. About the middle of 1928 he wrote to the Indian representatives of the Empire Parliamentary Association giving vent to the grievances of Indians in Canada and warning the Englishmen for "The last time". At the end of 1929 he interested himself in the manufacture and use of explosive. He was the Granthi and Treasurer of the Vancouver Temple Committee in 1929 and represented the committee at the Ghadr Party meeting held at Stockton in January 1930. During 1930 and 1931 he spoke at meetings held in memory of the martyrdom of the Babbar Akalis, and Bhagat Singh (murderer of a Police Officer in India) and his comrades, exhorting the young men of India to average their deaths. About this time, he and other members of the Temple Committee were suspected of having misappropriated temple funds, and a special commission subsequently reported to this effect. Other members of the committee fought these allegations, but Waryam Singh disappeared from Vancouver in the late summer of 1932, and the precise whereabouts are unknown.