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{{Infobox military person | {{Infobox military person | ||
|name = Sepoy Thakur Chatta Singh | |name = Sepoy Thakur Chatta Singh | ||
|birth_place = Chauhan Estate Tilsara [[Cawnpore]], [[ | |birth_place = Chauhan Estate Tilsara [[Cawnpore]], [[North-Western Provinces]], British India | ||
|death_place = Chauhan Estate Tilsara, [[Kanpur Nagar district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India | |death_place = Chauhan Estate Tilsara, [[Kanpur Nagar district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India | ||
|image = Chatta Singh.jpg | |image = Chatta Singh.jpg | ||
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For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in leaving cover to assist his Commanding Officer who was lying wounded | For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in leaving cover to assist his Commanding Officer who was lying wounded | ||
and | and helpless in the open. Sepoy Chatta Singh bound up the Officer's wound and then dug cover for him with his entrenching tool, being exposed all the time to very heavy rifle fire. For five hours until nightfall he remained beside the wounded Officer, shielding him with his own body on the exposed side. He then, under cover of darkness, went back for assistance, and brought the Officer into safety. | ||
|London Gazette, 21 June 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 29633 |supp= y |page=6191 |date= 21 June 1916 }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette| issue=31340 |page=6085 |date=15 May 1919 }}</ref>}} | |London Gazette, 21 June 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 29633 |supp= y |page=6191 |date= 21 June 1916 }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette| issue=31340 |page=6085 |date=15 May 1919 }}</ref>}} | ||