Ude (Udai) Singh, 14th Sikh Regiment,
died 1947
Then after a considerable time, my father said to his colleagues, "Sahib has not returned" They said leave him… My father decided to go in for search and according to General Savory, "My head was bleeding and I was dazed. I could find none of my men. I walked to the trench I had just left. There I was picked up by a great burly Sikh with a fair beard. He was one of our battalion wrestlers. He slung me over his shoulder, and took me back. Where he took me I don’t know. All the time we were being shot at…The next I know I was in the field ambulance with a doctor bending over me."
The two men linked up again when Savory was posted to India in 1934. Harbans Singh stayed in touch with General Savory (as he became) after Ude Singh’s death in 1947. The meetings and correspondence continued until Savory’s death in 1980.
Harbans Singh will hold a small celebration of his father’s relationship with Reginald Savory and his family on 4th June 2015, the centenary of the Third Battle of Krithia.
He has said, "I hope I may live to that day."
