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The Communist Party of Ceylon too supported the anti-war movement as they saw it also as a war of imperialists, but in 1941 when Germany attacked the Soviet Union they joined the war movement in support of the British calling it a people's war.
Ceylonese prisoners of war in World War II (3 P) Pages in category "Ceylonese military personnel of World War II" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
The Cenotaph War Memorial in Viharamahadevi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka is a war memorial dedicated to the military personnel from Ceylon killed in action during the two world wars. It was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. It comprises a towering Cenotaph and Memorial Walls.
World War II sites in Sri Lanka (19 P) Pages in category "Military history of Ceylon in World War II" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Ceylon Defence Force soldiers (1 C) W. ... Ceylonese military personnel of World War II (1 C, 42 P) Pages in category "Ceylonese military personnel"
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.
The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his male sweetheart emerged more than 70 years later after Mark Hignett, from Oswestry, Shropshire, began purchasing the letters from eBay.
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.