G. R. Jayasinghe

G. R. Jayasinghe
Allegiance Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Service/branch Sri Lanka Army
Rank Brigadier
Unit Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps
Commands held Sri Lanka Rifle Corps,
Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps
Battles/wars Sri Lankan Civil War,
Insurrection 1987-89

Brigadier G. R. Jayasinghe, SLAOC was a Sri Lankan military officer, who was the former head of the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps and founder of the Sri Lanka Rifle Corps in 1984.[1][2]

Educated at Royal College, Colombo, he joined the army after leaving school. He was commissioned into the Ceylon Army Ordnance Corps as a Second Lieutenant.

References

  1. ↑ Photographic exhibition
  2. ↑ SRI LANKA ARMY


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