A GALLANT SIKH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1419, 29 November 1886, Page 2

A GALLANT SIKH.

Sir Frederick Roberts told the other day at bimla a story of a deed which, bad it occurred in P oman history, would have made the hero of it immortal, and yet la English story it has no place, and the doer of it has received neither reward □or fame. His name possibly has been forgotten ‘‘unhonored and unsung." But here is the story of the deed, sa told by the present Commtnder-in-Ohief of India, au eye-witness of the scone;— “,At the relief of Lucknow when a heavy fire from the loop-holed walls was making havoc in the ranks of the storming party of the Sikanierbagh, a young Sikh, of the 4th Pun jmb Infantry, passed bis arm through toe wicket of the gate and endeavored to draw back the bolt with which it w.»a barred. A swocdont from within nearly severed bis hand from the wrist; nothing dannted, he withdrew the njared arm and thnrst in the other one. This shared the fate of the first, bat net before the bolt had been drawn, and the gallant Sikh bad the satisfaction of seeing his comrades stream through the gateway, which by bis determined bravery had been opened for them There was no difficulty (says Broad Arrow ) in defining the boundary line between courage and hero : sm hero, but no Victorian Cross wss granted ; the roles of the Order did not recognise an exceptional case of • native soldier. The story, however, will now find a place in England’s m lltary history kinongst other bright deeds that the world “ will not willingly let die,"