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Defence Services Command and Staff College : The Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) (Sinhala: ආරක්ෂක සේවා අණ හා මාණ්ඩලික විද්යාලය), Makola , established on 1 January 1997 as the Sri Lanka Army Command and Staff College serves as the principle staff college for the ...
The Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps (SLAMC) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා යුද හමුදා වෛද්ය බලකාය Shri Lanka Yuddha Hamuda Vayidya Balakaya) is a specialist corps in the Sri Lanka Army which specializes in military medicine and provides medical services to all army personnel and their families in war ...
The following tables present the ranks and insignia of the Sri Lanka Army. The ranks are similar to the British army officer ranks and the other ranks. At its formation in 1949, the Ceylon Army adopted the rank structures of the British Army . The highest rank in the Sri Lanka Army is Field Marshal, though the rank has no appointment in the ...
Commander of the Army. Chief of Staff. Deputy Chief of Staff. Army ranks. v. t. e. The Commander of the Army ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාවේ යුද්ධ හමුදාපති, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē yuddha hamudāpati) is the title of the professional head of the Sri Lanka Army. The current Commander of the Army is Lt ...
16 June 2014. Sri Lanka Engineers. Later Major General Crishantha de Silva was appointed as 21st Commander of the Army and promoted to Lieutenant General. In June 2017 he was promoted to General and appointed as Chief of Defence Staff. 45. Major General Prasad Samarasinghe. 17 May 2014. 6 May 2015.
Deputy Chief of Staff. Army ranks. v. t. e. Field marshal (FM) is the five-star rank of the Sri Lanka Army and ranks immediately above general. the rank has been awarded only once, to Sarath Fonseka as an honorary rank. [1] It is equivalent to admiral of the fleet and marshal of the Sri Lanka Air Force.
Major General (abbreviated as Maj Gen) is a senior rank in the Sri Lanka Army, and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of major general.It is the second-highest active rank of the Sri Lanka Army while the Lieutenant General is the highest (the lieutenant general is the professional head of the army), and is considered to be equivalent to a two-star rank.
Daya Ratnayake. General R. M. Daya Ratnayake, WWV, RWP and three Bars , RSP, USP is a former senior Sri Lanka Army officer who served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 2013 to 2015. Following his retirement from the army, he served as the Chairman, Sri Lanka Ports Authority and Secretary to the Ministry of Industriesiy. [1]