to British troops. This was intentionally done after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to prevent any further mutinies and uprisings from getting out of hand. The Afghans used the original and copy of Martini-Henry rifles. The Martini–Henry was copied on a large scale by North-West Frontier Province gunsmiths. The chief manufacturers were the Adam Khel Afridi, who lived around the Khyber Pass. The Khyber Pass gunsmiths first acquired examples of the various British service arms during nineteenth-century British military expeditions in the North-West Frontier, which they used to make copies. Soldiers The names of the 21 Sikh soldiers were: Havildar Ishar Singh (regimental number 165) Naik Lal Singh (332) Lance Naik Chanda Singh (546) Sepoy Sundar Singh (1321) Sepoy Ramm Singh (287) Sepoy Uttar Singh (492) Sepoy Sahib Singh (182) Sepoy Hira Singh (359) Sepoy Daya Singh (687) Sepoy Jivan Singh (760) Sepoy Bhola Singh (791) Sepoy Narayan Singh (834) Sepoy Gurmukh Singh (814) Sepoy Jivan Singh (871) Sepoy Gurmukh Singh (1733) Sepoy Ram Singh (163) Sepoy Bhagwan Singh (1257) Sepoy Bhagwan Singh (1265) Sepoy Buta Singh (1556) Sepoy Jivan Singh (1651) Sepoy Nand Singh (1221) Aftermath Having destroyed Saragarhi, the Afghans turned their attention to Fort Gulistan, but they had been delayed too long, and reinforcements arrived there in the night of 13–14 September, before the fort could be captured. The Pashtuns later admitted that they had lost about 180 killed and many more wounded during the engagement against the 21 Sikh soldiers. Some 600 bodies are said to have been seen around the ruined post when the relief party arrived (however, the fort had been retaken, on 14 September, by the use of intensive artillery fire, which may have caused some casualties). After it was retaken by the British, the burnt bricks of Saragarhi was used to make an obelisk for those fighters. The British also built gurdwaras at Amritsar and Ferozepur for them. The total casualties in the entire campaign, including the Battle of Saragarhi, numbered at around 4,800. Commemoration Commemorative tablet The inscription of a commemorative tablet reads: Order of Merit The 21 Sikh non-commissioned officers and soldiers who died in the Battle of Saragarhi were from the Majha region of Punjab and were posthumously awarded the Indian Order of Merit, at that time the highest gallantry award which an Indian soldier could receive. The corresponding gallantry award was the Victoria Cross. The award is equivalent