AdminToday in History, 75 yrs ago Shaheed Udham Singh, the freedom fighter had shot dead British official Michael O’Dwyer who’d ordered the the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. Singh who had surrendered himself was executed by the British in London and buried inside the prison. He had travelled to London to avenge Jallianwala Bagh and travelled […]
Today in History, 75 yrs ago Shaheed Udham Singh, the freedom fighter had shot dead British official Michael O’Dwyer who’d ordered the the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. Singh who had surrendered himself was executed by the British in London and buried inside the prison.
He had travelled to London to avenge Jallianwala Bagh and travelled under the code-name Frank Brazil.
Micheal O’Dwyer was the British Lieutenant Governor of Punjab who approved the action of Brigadier-General R.E.H. Dyer when the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in Amritsar. He travelled to England to avenge the atrocity and shot O’Dwyer dead in public in a Caxton hall, Westminster.
On the 31st July, 1940, Udham Singh was hanged at Pentonville jail, London. On the 4th of June in the same year he had been arraigned before Mr. Justice Atkinson at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey.
The trial of Udham Singh lasted for two days, he was found guilty and was given the death sentence.
We all continue to derive endless inspiration and love for nation from his life. Let us all remember the great revolutionary and brave hearted “Shaheed Udham Singh” on his martyrdom day.
~ Edited by Tapasleen Kaur