About: Gobind Singh (VC)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/57M61t8UhqnTfVDn1WHt-A==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Gobind Singh Rathore VC (7 December 1887 – 9 December 1942) was an Indian soldier, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War. Govind Singh hailed from a small village named Damoi (dist. Nagaur) in Rajasthan. He was 29 years old when he became a Lance-Daffadar in the 28th Light Cavalry. He was later attached to 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) during the First World War.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Gobind Singh (VC)
rdfs:comment
  • Gobind Singh Rathore VC (7 December 1887 – 9 December 1942) was an Indian soldier, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War. Govind Singh hailed from a small village named Damoi (dist. Nagaur) in Rajasthan. He was 29 years old when he became a Lance-Daffadar in the 28th Light Cavalry. He was later attached to 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) during the First World War.
sameAs
Unit
  • 2(xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
honorific suffix
  • VC
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Birth Date
  • 1882-12-07(xsd:date)
Name
  • Gobind Singh
Awards
  • 30(xsd:integer)
death date
  • 1942-12-09(xsd:date)
Allegiance
  • India
Battles
abstract
  • Gobind Singh Rathore VC (7 December 1887 – 9 December 1942) was an Indian soldier, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War. Govind Singh hailed from a small village named Damoi (dist. Nagaur) in Rajasthan. He was 29 years old when he became a Lance-Daffadar in the 28th Light Cavalry. He was later attached to 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) during the First World War. The Battle of Cambrai was an all-important battle not only because it was an effort by the allied forces to break the Hindenburg Line of the Germans, but also because it was there that tanks were used successfully for the first time in the history of warfare. On the night of 30 November and 1 December 1917 east of Peizieres, France, Lance-Dafadar Gobind Singh was in the midst of the Battle of Cambrai, when his regiment was cut off and surrounded by enemy. An urgent message had to be sent to the brigade headquarters giving the position of the regiment. The route was a 6-mile stretch over open ground, under constant observation and enemy fire. Singh volunteered and not only delivered the message but also undertook a return message and a subsequent one. He survived enemy machine gun fire directed at him on all three occasions although his horse was killed every time.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software