Denis Perera Military person

General Deshamanya Joseph Everard Denis Perera, VSV, FCMI, ndc, psc, SLE (10 October 1930 – 11 August 2013) was a Sri Lankan general, military engineer and a diplomat who served as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1977 to 1981. He was also the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Ceylon Tobacco Company and Chancellor of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.

Personal facts

Denis Perera
Birth dateOctober 10, 1930
Birth place
Sri Lanka , Gampaha
Date of deathAugust 11, 2013

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Military person

allegianceSri Lanka
award
Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya
military operations
1971 JVP Insurrection
Sri Lankan Civil War
military branch
Sri Lanka Army
military command
Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army
Commander of the Sri Lankan Army
military unit
Sri Lanka Engineers
service start1949
service end1981

Denis Perera on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.army.lk/index1.php
  2. http://www.lmd.lk/2006/July/public.htm
  3. http://www.rivira.lk/2008/12/07/rivinetha4.htm