About: Sumith Balasuriya   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/57M61t8UhqnTfVDn1WHt-A==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Major General Sumith Balasuriya, VSV, USP, ndc, IG, SLA is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commandant, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, Vice Chancellor/Commandant, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University and GOC, 23 Division. Educated at Royal College, Colombo, Balasuriya joined the army in 1974 after leaving school and was commissioned in to the Sri Lanka Artillery in 1975 as a Second Lieutenant. He went to become the head of the Sri Lanka Artillery, its Colonel-Commandant. He was the General Officer Commanding of the 23 Division.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Sumith Balasuriya
rdfs:comment
  • Major General Sumith Balasuriya, VSV, USP, ndc, IG, SLA is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commandant, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, Vice Chancellor/Commandant, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University and GOC, 23 Division. Educated at Royal College, Colombo, Balasuriya joined the army in 1974 after leaving school and was commissioned in to the Sri Lanka Artillery in 1975 as a Second Lieutenant. He went to become the head of the Sri Lanka Artillery, its Colonel-Commandant. He was the General Officer Commanding of the 23 Division.
sameAs
Unit
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
serviceyears
  • 1974(xsd:integer)
Commands
  • 23(xsd:integer)
  • General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University,
  • Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force,
Branch
Name
  • Sumith Balasuriya
Title
Awards
Rank
Battles
Before
  • Lawrence Fernando
Years
  • 2007(xsd:integer)
After
  • J. J. P. S. T. Liyanage
laterwork
  • Director General - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
abstract
  • Major General Sumith Balasuriya, VSV, USP, ndc, IG, SLA is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commandant, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, Vice Chancellor/Commandant, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University and GOC, 23 Division. Educated at Royal College, Colombo, Balasuriya joined the army in 1974 after leaving school and was commissioned in to the Sri Lanka Artillery in 1975 as a Second Lieutenant. He went to become the head of the Sri Lanka Artillery, its Colonel-Commandant. He was the General Officer Commanding of the 23 Division. Becoming the Vice Chancellor Commandant of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, he was tipped to become the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army. However he was appointed as Commandant of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force. General Balasuriya is a graduate of the National Defence College, India and was the Inspector General of Artillery. He was awarded the Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya (VSV), Uttama Seva Padakkama (USP), the Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Service Medal, the Riviresa Campaign Services Medal, the Purna Bhumi Padakkama and the North and East Operations Medal. Since his retirement he has been appointed as Director General of the Counter-terrorism Division in Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software