Sajjan Singh of Ratlam
British Indian Army general
Major-General Sir Sajjan Singh Bahadur (13 January 1880 – 3 February 1947) was a British Indian Army officer and Maharaja of the Princely State of Ratlam State in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, ruling from the year 1893 until 1947, six months before the independence of India from British rule.
Life and career
The only son of Ranjit Singh, Sajjan Singh succeeded to the Ratlam throne at the age of 13, and was educated at Daly College, Indore and at Mayo College, Ajmer. He served with the Imperial Cadet Corps, Dehradun, and reigned under a regency until he came of age in 1898. Commissioned an honorary Captain in the British Indian Army in 1908, he was promoted to major in 1911 and served on the Western Front during the First World War from 1914 to 1915. He was mentioned in despatches and promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1916 and to colonel in 1918. Owing to his wartime service, he was raised from an 11-gun to a 13-gun salute in 1918, and was promoted to the rank of a hereditary Maharaja in 1921, also receiving a 15-gun local salute at the same time.
After the war, Singh served as regent of Rewa State from October 1918 to October 1922. He also served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War as aide-de-camp to the General Officer Commanding 1st Division on the North-West Frontier. From 1915 to 1936, Sajjan Singh served as aide-de-camp to George V and was also aide-de-camp to the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) when the latter toured India from 1921 to 1922; he was appointed a KCVO for this in 1922. Singh subsequently served as an honorary and extra ADC to George VI until 1947.
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