He, too, fell, during that charge, as did all of the remaining soldiers except for the heliograph operator, Gurmukh Singh.
Shortly after the attack began, Gurmukh Singh signaled for aid to Lieutenant Colonel
John Haughton at Fort Lockhart, but he was told that immediate help was unavailable.
Since Saragarhi was a communications post, almost the entire battle was broadcast in real time by its signal man,
Sardar Gurmukh Singh, which is why we today know
what exactly happened there when 21 faced off against 10,000.