Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps

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Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps
Cap badge of the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps
Active	29 March 1950 - Present
Country	Sri Lanka
Branch	Sri Lanka Army
Role	Combat Support
Size	4 Battalions
Regimental Centre	Panagoda Cantonment, Panagoda.
Nickname	SLAOC
Motto	To the Warrior his Arms
Anniversaries	29 March (Regimental day)
Engagements	1971 Insurrection Insurrection 1987-89 Sri Lankan Civil War
Commanders
Centre Commandant	Col R.V. Udawatte psc ATO
Colonel Commandant	Maj Gen L.B. Aluvihare USP psc ATO

The Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps (SLAOC) a combat support corps of the Sri Lanka Army. The role of the corps is the procurement, receipt, storage, accounting, maintenance, control and issue of all types of ordnance stores. It is made up of three regular ordnance battalions and one volunteer (reserve) ordnance battalion and many independent ordnance depots give continuous support to the army. Headquartered at the Regiment Center, Panagoda Cantonment, Panagoda.

1 History
2 Units
- 2.1 Regular Army
- 2.2 Volunteers
3 Order of Precedence
4 See also
5 External links and sources

[edit] History

The Corps of Ordnance in the Ceylon Army was formed on 29th March 1950. Before this, the Directorate of Ordnance was established with the arrival of British Army Adviser Maj. H.P Bracher of the RAOC. The ordnance element of the Army consisted of two parts namely the Directorate in Army HQ and the Ordnance Depot at Kirillapone. In June 1954 the Ordnance established its depot affiliated to the Ceylon Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. When the requirement of storage facilities were increasing, the Ordnance Depot was shifted from Kirillapone to the Panagoda Cantonment in July 1955. Lt. Col. D.F.T. Abeysinghe was appointed Commanding Officer of the Ceylon Army Ordnance Corps in 1959. The Ordnance Corps did not have a Volunteer counterpart, but in 1980 a Volunteer company was raised as part of the Corps and now it is elevated to the level of a unit. The first Commanding Officer of this unit is Maj. B.S.G Nanayakkara.