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No. 292 Squadron RAF (394 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

No. 292 Squadron RAF was an air-sea rescue (ASR) squadron of the Royal Air Force operating in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War. 292 squadron
No. 258 Squadron RAF (393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 258 Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron during the First and Second World Wars. No. 258 Squadron was first formed 25 July 1918 from 523, 525 and
No. 321 (Dutch) Squadron RAF (411 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
No. 321 (Dutch) Squadron RAF was a unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War formed from the personnel of the Marineluchtvaartdienst (MLD)
No. 357 Squadron RAF (425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 357 Squadron was a special operations squadron of the Royal Air Force. During the Second World War it was involved in supplying Allied ground forces
803 Naval Air Squadron (936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
803 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron. 803 NAS was formed on 3 April 1933 by promoting No 405 (Fleet Fighter) Flight to the status
No. 240 Squadron RAF (580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 240 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force flying boat and seaplane squadron during World War I, World War II and up to 1959. It was then reformed as a
No. 261 Squadron RAF (678 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 261 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War I and World War II. It was involved in the defence of Malta from August 1940
No. 159 Squadron RAF (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 159 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force squadron that was active as a bomber, mine-laying, reconnaissance and transport unit in the Second World War
No. 81 Squadron RAF (1,050 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No 81 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It flew Fighter aircraft during the Second World War, and reconnaissance aircraft in the Far East
No. 273 Squadron RAF (1,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 273 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force squadron formed as reconnaissance unit in World War I, and re-formed in World War II in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) -
No. 160 Squadron RAF (694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 160 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force unit during the Second World War, when it flew for four years in a number of roles including heavy bomber, minelaying
No. 205 Squadron RAF (997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 205 Squadron was a Royal Air Force unit formed on 1 April 1918. Prior to this it had existed as No. 5 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS)
34th Infantry Division (India) (148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
The 34th Indian Infantry Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in March 1942 as the garrison of Ceylon
History of the Sri Lanka Navy (658 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In January 1938 the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force (CNVF) was created with Commander W. G. Beauchamp as Commanding Officer. On 31 August 1939, the CNVF was
Diyatalawa (659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Diyatalawa (දියතලාව, meaning “the watered plain”) is a former garrison town in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, in the Badulla District of Uva Province
Sri Lanka Engineers (1,029 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Corp of Sri Lanka Engineers (SLE) is a combat support arm of the Sri Lanka Army which provides military engineering. It is made up of ten regular regiments
Sri Lanka Light Infantry (1,920 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Sri Lanka Light Infantry (SLLI) is the oldest regiment in the Sri Lanka Army and the oldest infantry regiment in the army. It is made up of sixteen
Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps (693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
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
Colombo Town Guard (446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Colombo Town Guard was a regiment attached to the Ceylon Defence Force which was the predecessor to the Sri Lanka Army prior to 1949 when the Ceylon Army
Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force (603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force (SLVNF) is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the Sri Lanka Navy. The SLVNF, which consists of the volunteer
SLNS Parakrama (113 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
SLNS Parakrama is a Sri Lanka Navy shore establishment sited on Flagstaff Street in Colombo, in close proximity to the Colombo Lighthouse. It functions
Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps (804 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps was a regiment of the Ceylon Defence Force, which existed between 1900 and 1949. It was a volunteer (reserve) regiment
Action of 13 November 1943 (498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The action of 13 November 1943 was a submarine engagement of World War II. It resulted in the sinking of the Japanese Navy's Kaidai Junsen Type B1 submarine
Sri Lanka Signals Corps (870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Sri Lanka Signals Corps (SLSC) (Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංඥා බලකාය Shri Lanka Sana Balakaya) is a combat support corps of the Sri Lanka Army, responsible
National Cadet Corps (Sri Lanka) (1,603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
The National Cadet Corps (NCC) is a youth organisation in Sri Lanka, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence, which operates in schools, and normally includes
No. 17 Squadron RAF (3,035 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Number 17 Squadron (sometimes written as No. XVII Squadron), currently No. 17 Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES), is a squadron of the Royal Air Force
Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall (302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (22 February 1889 – 18 November 1979) was an officer in the British Army during
Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (1,097 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was the volunteer naval reserve of the British Crown colony of Ceylon from 1938 to 1950. Established as the Ceylon
HMS Uva (120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
HMS Uva was a Royal Navy rest camp at Diyatalawa, in British Ceylon. The camp was reportedly built as a prisoner of war camp for use in the Boer War in
Indian Ocean raid (5,817 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Indian Ocean raid, also known as Operation C or Battle of Ceylon in Japanese, was a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from
No. 1303 Flight RAF (118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No. 1303 (Meteorological) Flight was formed at RAF Ratmalana, Ceylon, on 31 July 1943 by re-designating No. 4 Meteorological Flight RAF. The flight was
HMS Gamunu (166 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
HMS Gamunu was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy in Ceylon. With the Admiralty taking over the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force in 1942, its headquarters