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List of Sri Lankan flags; List of Sri Lankan politicians; List of flags by color combination; List of sovereign states in the 1950s; M. D. Banda; M. S. Kariapper; Maithripala Senanayake; Montague Jayawickrama; N. H. Keerthiratne; N. M. Perera; New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games; P. B. Bulankulame; Pakistan at the 1948 Summer Olympics ...
Singhalese women labourers RAF flying boat station at Red Hills Lake, Ceylon. The British had occupied the coastal areas of the island since 1796, but after 1917 the colony had no regular garrison of British troops. The Ceylon Defence Force and Ceylon Navy Volunteer Reserve were mobilised and expanded.
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Allies of World War II; Asian Relations Conference; Athletics at the 1938 British Empire Games; Australian cricket team in England in 1934; Barney Henricus; Birmingham Mint; Blue Ensign; British Ceylon; British Empire in World War II; British Sri Lankans; C. Sittampalam; C. W. W. Kannangara; Cecil Clementi; Ceylon Defence Force; Civil ensign ...
Soon after the war the 80th Carnatics, who were the last regular military unit stationed in Ceylon on garrison duties, left. This resulted in the Ceylon Defence Force becoming a regular military unit with some units, such as the Mobilized Detachment of Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers having troops mobilised on a permanent basis.
A small garrison on the Cocos Islands, crewed by Ceylonese, attempted to expel the British. It has been claimed that the LSSP had some hand in the action, though this is far from clear. Three of the participants were the only British Subject Peoples to be shot for "mutiny" during World War II. [26]
The Cocos Islands mutiny was a failed mutiny by Sri Lankan soldiers against British officers, on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 8 May 1942, during the Second World War.. The mutineers attempted to seize control of the islands and disable the British garrison.