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C.S. Weerasooriya was enlisted into the Ceylon Army on 09 May 1963 as an Officer Cadet. He was a member of the first batch that was trained at the Pakistan Military Academy from 1963 to 1965. He was commissioned on 11 September 1965 into the 4th Regiment Ceylon Artillery. Over the years, C.S. Weerasooriya followed the Regimental Officers Survey ...
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 ...
General (abbreviated as Gen.) is the highest attainable and full general rank of the Sri Lankan Army and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of general; it is also considered a four-star rank . The rank of full general is not always given; this rank is held by a Chief of the Defence Staff (if the chief is appointed ...
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Lieutenant colonel ( Lt Col ), is an officer rank in the Sri Lanka Army. The rank is superior to major, and subordinate to colonel. [1] The equivalent Sri Lanka Navy rank is commander, and the comparable rank in the Sri Lanka Air Force is wing commander . Lieutenant Colonel Priyantha Dasanayake in wearing the rank insignia of a Lieutenant colonel.
Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps. Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps. Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police. Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps. Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps. Sri Lanka Army Corps of Agriculture and Livestocks. Sri Lanka Army Pioneer Corps.
The Army Training School (ATS) ( Sinhala: යුද්ධ හමුදා පුහුණු පාසල, romanized: yuddha hamudā puhuṇu pāsala) is a unit of the Sri Lanka Army responsible for recruit training and unit training for infantry battalion. It is based in Maduruoya it was established in 1985 at the Panagoda Cantonment by the ...
Eelam War I (23 July 1983 - 29 July 1987) is the name given to the initial phase of the armed conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE.. Although tensions between the government and Tamil militant groups had been brewing since the 1970s, full-scale war did not break out until an attack by the LTTE on a Sri Lanka Army patrol in Jaffna, in the north of the country, on July 23 ...