Unit Sri Lanka Engineers Rank Lieutenant general Service/branch Sri Lanka Army | Education Dharmaraja College Name Nalin Angammana Allegiance Sri Lanka | |
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Native name ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් නලින් අංගම්මන Commands held General Officer Commanding, 3rd Army Division Battles/wars 1971 Insurrection
Sri Lankan Civil War Died 1995, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka Battles and wars 1971 JVP Insurrection, Sri Lankan Civil War | ||
Lieutenant General Nalin Angammana (Sinhalese: ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් නලින් අංගම්මන) (1945 – 1995), Commander of Sri Lanka's 3rd army division, was one of the distinguished Generals in the Sri Lanka army. He is the most senior officer of Sri Lanka Army to be killed in battlefield during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Angammana was educated at Dharmaraja College, Kandy. He was commissioned to the Sri Lanka Engineers corps as he joined the Army. On July 30, 1995, when he was returning from an investigation into a terrorist attack on a government camp, the vehicle he was returning, caught in a land mine buried by the LTTE. Angammana, with 3 other officers was killed due to the explosion. 13 other soldiers were injured.
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