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Then a British Indian Army soldier, Nand was grievously wounded but had killed seven enemy soldiers with his rifle bayonet. It is a common artillery weapon among the Commonwealth nations.The field gun weighs 1,633kg and is 4.6m long with 2.47m long barrel. At Uri in Kashmir in December 1947, while fighting for the 1 Sikh Regiment, he had engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat and killed five of them before a burst from a machine gun killed him.Officials said the 88mm 25 Pounder gun, placed at the roundabout, is a dual-purpose British field gun. BATHINDA: After nearly six years, two obsolete artillery guns have placed on the pedestal of Naib Subedar Nand Singh’s statue in Bathinda It is after a long drawn communication that the Army granted permission for placing guns at one of the busiest roundabouts of Bathinda, now known as Fauji Chowk.Earlier, there was a proposal to set up a tank near the statue. Born on September 24, 1914 at Bahadurpur village, now in Mansa district, he had singlehandedly captured three Japanese-held trenches at Arakan in Burma (now Myanmar) during World War II in 1944..