Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force

Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force was the title of the head of the Ceylon Defence Force.^[1] The post was created in 1888, replacing the position of General Officer Commanding, Ceylon, and existed until 1949.

List of Commanders

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No.	Portrait	Rank	Name	Appointment	Left office	Unit
Ceylon Volunteers (1888-1896)
1	Lieutenant colonel	Francis Coningsby Hannam Clarke	20 April 1888	27 August 1893	Royal Artillery	CMG, psc, FRGS, FRCI, CLIV
2	Lieutenant colonel	Henry Byrde	28 August 1893	13 May 1896	57th Regiment of Foot	CLIV
Ceylon Volunteers Force (1896-1913)
3	Colonel	A. F. C. Vincent	13 May 1896	1902	Scottish Rifles	CMG
Major	H. G. Morris	1902	1902	Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3	Colonel	A. F. C. Vincent	1902	14 March 1913	Scottish Rifles	CMG
Lieutenant colonel	Gorden Fraser	14 March 1913	13 May 1913	VD, CLI
3	Colonel	A. F. C. Vincent	13 May 1913	31 May 1913	Scottish Rifles	CMG
Ceylon Defence Force (1913-1946)
4	Brigadier general	R. B. Fell	1 June 1913	6 March 1914	Scottish Rifles	CB
Lieutenant colonel	W. G. B. Dickson	6 March 1914	?	CMR
Honorary Lieutenant colonel	Edward James Hayward	7 October 1914	?	CBE, VD, CAV
4	Brigadier general	R. B. Fell	?	31 December 1919	Scottish Rifles	CB
Lieutenant colonel	Thomas Howard Chapman	1 January 1920	21 July 1920	OBE, VD
5	Brigadier general	F. M. G. Rowley	22 July 1920	8 February 1927	CB, CMG, DSO
6	Colonel	Albion Earnest Andrews	9 February 1927	14 December 1928	Hampshire Regiment	OBE
Lieutenant colonel	G. B. Stevens	14 December 1928	28 April 1929	Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps	VD
7	Colonel	Edward Bromfield Ferrers	29 April 1929	3 March 1935	Black Watch	DSO
8	Colonel	Robert Burton Leslie	3 March 1935	12 May 1937	Royal Lincolnshire Regiment	MC
9	Colonel	Gordon Calthrop Thorne	13 May 1937	5 February 1939	Royal Norfolk Regiment
10	Colonel	Reginald Strelley Moresby White	6 February 1939	1 January 1942	Leicestershire Regiment	OBE
11	Colonel	T. G. Watson	1 January 1942	1945	8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
12	Colonel	R. A. McGeorge	1945	1946	The Rifle Brigade
Ceylon Defence Force & Ceylon Volunteers Force (1946-1949)
Colonel	Randolph Jewell Francis Mendis	6 April 1946	7 August 1949	OBE, ED, BA

References

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^ "Commandants". ceylondatabase.net. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.

External links

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Commandants Archived 2014年03月22日 at the Wayback Machine

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1 Clarke 2 Byrde 3 Vincent Morris 3 Vincent Fraser 3 Vincent 4 Fell Dickson Hayward 4 Fell Chapman 5 Rowley 6 Andrews Stevens 7 Ferrers 8 Lesley 9 Thorne 10 White 11 Watson 12 McGeorge Mendis		Flag of British Ceylon

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British Ceylon 1815–1948

Background

History

Late Kandyan period (1795–1815)	Invasion of Ceylon (1795) Kandyan–British wars (1803–1818) First Kandyan war (1803–1805) Second Kandyan war (1815)
Post-Kandyan period (1815–1833)	Kandyan Convention (1815) Sri Lankan independence movement (1815–1948) Great Rebellion of 1817–1818 (Third Kandyan war)
Colebrooke–Cameron Reforms era (1833–1927)	Colebrooke–Cameron Commission (1833) Crown Lands Ordinance (1840) Matale rebellion (1848) Temperance movement (1895) Waste Lands Ordinance (1897) 1906 malaria outbreak 1915 Ceylonese riots 1918–1919 Ceylonese food riots
Donoughmore Reforms era (1927–1948)	Donoughmore Commission (1927) Land Settlement Ordinance (1931) Suriya-Mal Movement (1933–1939) Dry Zone Settlements (1930s–) 1934-35 malaria outbreak Land Development Ordinance (1935) Ceylon in World War II (1939–1945) Cocos Islands mutiny (1942) South East Asia Command (1943–1946) Kannangara education reforms (1939–1947) Soulbury Commission (1943) State Lands Ordinance (1947)

Government

Law	Donoughmore Constitution (1931) Soulbury Constitution (1947)
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Administrative divisions	Capital city Provinces Kandyan Provinces Maritime Provinces Districts Government Agent

Politics

Economy

Currency	Board of Commissioners of Currency of Ceylon Rupee British pound Indian rupee
Plantation industry	Cinnamon Cocoa Coconut Coffee Rubber Tea production
Labour	Indian Ocean slave trade Indian indenture system Kangani system

Society

Culture	Architecture British buildings Place names English Scottish Music Sinhalese porcupine quill boxes Social class
Related peoples	British Indian Moors Indian Tamils Malays
Languages	Sri Lankan English Sri Lankan Creole Malay Sinhala words of English origin
Religion	Protestantism Church of Ceylon Bishop of Colombo Methodist Church in Sri Lanka American Ceylon Mission Batticotta Seminary Wesleyan Methodist Mission, North Ceylon Lanka Lutheran Church The Pentecostal Mission Sri Lanka Baptist Sangamaya The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sri Lanka Bible translations into Sinhala

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