Nalin Angammana Explained

Honorific Prefix:Lieutenant General
Nalin Angammana
Native Name:ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් නලින් අංගම්මන
Native Name Lang:sin
Birth Date:1945
Birth Place:Kandy, Sri Lanka
Death Place:Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Allegiance: Sri Lanka
Commands:3 Division,
1 Field Engineer Regiment
Unit:Sri Lanka Engineers
Battles:

Lieutenant General Nalin K. B. Angammana (Sinhala; Sinhalese: ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් නලින් අංගම්මන) (1945  - 1995) was a senior Sri Lanka Army officer, who was the former General Officer Commanding, 3 Division.

Early life and education

Born in Kandy, Angammana was educated at Dharmaraja College, Kandy.[1]

Military career

Joining the Ceylon Army, Angammana as an officer cadet and received his basic officer training at the Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa. Thereafter he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 1 Field Engineer Regiment, Sri Lanka Engineers. He attended the dthe Defence Services Staff College, Wellington gaining the Psc qualification and served as the commanding officer of the 1 Field Engineer Regiment from March 1987 to September 1988. He was serving as the General Officer Commanding, 3 Division when he was killed on 30 July 1995. He was returning to his headquarters following an inspection of army detachment that had been attacked the LTTE few hours prior. His vehicle hit a pressure mine buried by the LTTE off Valaichenai the resulting explosion killed Major General Angammana and three other officers and wounded 13 other soldiers.[2] [3] He is the most senior officer of Sri Lanka Army to be killed in the field during the Sri Lankan Civil War, he was posthumously promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and the Lieutenant General N K B Angammana Memorial Hall named in his honor at the regimental headquarters of the Sri Lanka Engineers.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dharmaraja honours her war heroes . The Island . 2009 . 2011-06-11.
  2. News: Ferdinando . Shamindra . A spate of military debacles in North War on terror revisited: . 9 June 2020 . Island . 24 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190624080639/http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details . dead .
  3. Web site: LTTE's three times lucky terror at Katunayake. Sunday Times. 2001 . 2011-06-11.
  4. Web site: Brigadier Nalin Angammana,. https://web.archive.org/web/20120805212347/http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/96/0112/feat2.html. dead. 2012-08-05. CNN. 1995. 2011-06-11.