HIRA SINGH

WHEN INDIA CAME TO FIGHT IN FLANDERS


BY TALBOT MUNDY


Author of

King--of the Khyber Rifles, The Winds of the World, etc.


ILLUSTRATED BY J. CLEMENT COLL






PREFACE

I take leave to dedicate this book to Mr. Elmer Davis, through whose
friendly offices I was led to track down the hero of these
adventures and to find the true account of them even better than the
daily paper promised.

Had Ranjoor Singh and his men been Muhammadans their accomplishment
would have been sufficiently wonderful. For Sikhs to attempt what
they carried through, even under such splendid leadership as Ranjoor