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17 of 1949 which was passed by Parliament on April 11, 1949 and formalized in Gazette Extraordinary No.
10028 of October 10, 1949 marked the creation of the Ceylon Army, consisting of a regular and a volunteer force, the later being the successor of the disbanded CDF. Therefor October 10, 1949 is considered the Ceylon Army was raised, and October 10 is celebrated annually as Army day.
The first batch of Officer Cadets from our own citizenry was sent to the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst in January 1950.
The first internal security operation of the Ceylon Army began in 1952, code named Operation Monty to counter the influx of illegal South Indian immigrants brought in by smugglers on the north-western cost, in support of Royal Ceylon Navy coastal patrols and police operations.
In 1962 several volunteer officers attempted a military coup, which was stopped hours before it was launched.
After successfully defeating the insurgency led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in 1971, the army was confronted with a new conflict, this time with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and other Tamil militant groups.
After the 1971 uprising, the army expanded its range of weapons from the original stock of World War II-era British Lee Enfield rifles and 4.2-inch heavy mortars.
In May 1972, when Ceylon was proclaimed a republic and changed its name to from the Dominion of Ceylon to the Republic of Sri Lanka, all Army units were renamed accordingly.
The Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps (SLAWC) was formed on September 1, 1979 as an unarmed, noncombatant support unit.
The Military Academy was founded in 1981 and absorbed the earlier Officers' Cadet School and the Officers' Study Center.
Therefore the South African made Buffel was introduced to service in 1985 to reduce damage due to land mines.
In early 1988, the government announced a major reorganization of the army, creating several high-level posts to accommodate the new structure.
Junior field officers of the army and their counterparts in the Navy and Air Force are given advanced training and education at the Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) at Batalanda, Makola which was established in 1997 as the Army Command and Staff College.
Haiti – an infantry battalion with support personal totaling around 1000 personal in Haiti as part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti since 2004.
After over 6 months of service, the first contingent of the peacekeeping force returned to Sri Lanka on May 17, 2005.
In December 2007, 7th rotation of the Sri Lankan contingent had been deployed with a force of 991 officers and other ranks, many of the those deployed have been awarded the United Nations Medal for their services.
Associated Newspapers of Ceylon. http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/01/20/spice01.asp.
In 19 May 2009 Sri Lankan army declare the victory of war as they found the dead body of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Chad – a contingent of engineers joined the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad on May 25, 2010.
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