India's Forgotten "Spy" dies

[dirty]

British-born Sydney Wignall discovered the secrets of China’s expansion across Tibet to the borders of India and Nepal

India never forgets its enemies, but sometimes has difficulty remembering its friends like the recently deceased British mountaineer who risked his life to gather information about China’s military build-up in the Himalayas.

Sadly, New Delhi has ignored the death of Cheshire-born Sydney Wignall who died a few weeks ago in the UK at the age of 89. A British-born hero and unpaid spy of the Indian Army, he used both brains and brawn to discover the secrets of China’s expansion across Tibet to the borders of India and Nepal.

Wignall suffered frost bite, dysentery and regular beatings at the hands of Chinese army guards during his two-month incarceration in a rat-infested prison in Tibet. After his release, he received profuse thanks from his Indian Army contacts for the valuable data he obtained. But the only ‘reward’ he claimed and obtained was a supply of cricket bats and balls for the children of a Nepalese village school that he visited on his way to Tibet.

In 1955, seven years before the Indian Army’s disastrous rout at the hands of Chinese forces, Cheshire-born Sydney Wignall was inspired to lead a Welsh Himalayan Expedition to try and climb the 25,355-foot-high Gurla Mandhata peak in Western Tibet.

Sponsored by the Liverpool Daily Post newspaper and Life magazine, the ostensible objective of the team was to place the flags of Wales and the Chinese Republic on the Gurla Mandhata summit.

Unbeknown to his fellow climbers, however, Wignall had also agreed to gather information for the Indian Army intelligence worried about China’s secret military build up in what was then the autonomous region of Tibet.

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[kalidas]

Ye mole anmol tha. Bhagwan uski atma ko sukhi de.

[raniraja]

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[sanjayt]

We try very hard not to do anything that might cause any kind of offence to the Chinese.

[milanfanabhi]

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[kkkk]

we have not learned from our mistakes of the past. tabhi to kisi ne info nikal ke di badi mushkil se - abhi to khuli aankho se dikhta hai ki China has made a lot of infrastructure development along that border. We did nothing about it at that time, we are doing nothing about it now.

[shruthi_ks]

[shruthi_ks]

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[kalidas]

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[Mallu Rider]

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[kalidas]

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[Premi]

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[shruthi_ks]

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[swami]

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