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
No. | Portrait | Rank | Name | Appointment | Left office | Unit | Decorations |
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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
- ^ "Commandants". ceylondatabase.net. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
External links
- Commandants Archived 2014-03-22 at the Wayback Machine