Nalin Angammana
Nalin Angammana † | |
|---|---|
 Lieutenant General Nalin Angammana | |
| Native name | ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් නලින් අංගම්මන |
| Born | 1945 Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| Died | 1995 (aged 49–50) Batticaloa, Sri Lanka |
| Allegiance |  Sri Lanka |
| Service/ |  Sri Lanka Army |
| Rank |  Lieutenant General |
| Unit | Sri Lanka Engineers |
| Commands | General Officer Commanding, 3rd Army Division |
| Battles/wars | |
Lieutenant General Nalin Angammana (Sinhala: 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] Angammana, with 3 other officers was killed due to the explosion. 13 other soldiers were injured.
See also
References
- ^ "LTTE's three times lucky terror at Katunayake". Sunday Times. 2001. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ "Dharmaraja honours her war heroes". The Island. 2009. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ "Brigadier Nalin Angammana,". CNN. 1995. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
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