Post and Telegraph Signals
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Ceylon Post and Telegraph Signals Corps | |
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![]() Ceylon Post & Telegraph Signals 1943-45 | |
Active | 1946-1949, 1955 - 1956 |
Country | Ceylon |
Branch | Ceylon Defense Force, Ceylon Army |
Role | Communication |
Ceylon Post and Telegraph Signals Corps was corps of the Ceylon Defense Force from 1946 to 1949. It was formed in February 1946, from the Post and Telegraph Signals Unit of the Ceylon Engineers Corps.[1] It was disbanded following the disbanding of the Ceylon Defence Force on 11 April 1949 and formation of the Ceylon Army by Army Act No. 17 of 1949 which revoked the Ceylon Defence Force Ordinance of 1910. The corps was reformed in 1955 with staff from the Department of Post and Ceylon Telegraph Department. The government hoped to minimized the effects to the Post and Telegraph services in the event of trade union action (strikes were common) by mobilizing the personnel attached to this unit. However it was disbanded in 1956 when the leftist S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike became prime minister.
See also[]
- General Post Office, Colombo
- Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka Post
References[]
- ^ "THE CEYLON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" (PDF). National Archives. Government of Ceylon. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- Disbanded regiments of the Sri Lankan Army
- Military units and formations established in 1955
- Military units and formations disestablished in 1956
- Postal system of Sri Lanka
- 1955 establishments in Ceylon
- 1956 disestablishments in Ceylon
- Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force