The Kandy War Cemetery, formerly known as the Pitakande Military Cemetery, is a British military cemetery in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for soldiers of the British...
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Cemetery Kandy War Cemetery Liveramentu Cemetery Trincomalee British War Cemetery Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Index of War Dead...
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British Garrison Cemetery (also known as the Kandy Garrison Cemetery) is a British cemetery in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for British nationals who died in Ceylon...
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Garrison Cemetery Kandy War Cemetery Liveramentu Cemetery CWGC: Trincomalee War Cemetery History of Trincomalee "The photographs of Trincomalee British War Cemetery...
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constructed approximately 2,500 war cemeteries and numerous memorials. The commission is currently responsible for the care of war dead at over 23,000 separate...
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Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, locally known as the English War Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero di guerra inglese), is a Commonwealth military cemetery in Coriano...
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1841 and 1866. There were no further burials here until World War II (1939–1945). The cemetery is roughly triangular in shape and stands on ground rising...
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Sai Wan War Cemetery is a military cemetery located in Chai Wan, Hong Kong which was built in 1946. The cemetery was created to commemorate soldiers of...
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Kandy railway station (Sinhala: මහනුවර දුම්රිය ස්ථානය, Tamil: கண்டி ரயில் நிலையம்) is a major railway station in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The station is served...
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Tower Hill Memorial (redirect from Merchant Navy War Memorial)
the IWGC during the war, in which capacity he made several visits to France to make initial plans for organised cemeteries. The war had a profound effect...
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and High Harrogate, who died in the First World War. There are various elaborate memorials in the cemetery, dedicated to the town's worthies, such as Robert...
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The Kandy Garden Club is a social and sports club in Kandy, Sri Lanka, which was established in 1878 for the exclusive use by British coffee planters to...
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working Colombo-Ambepussa (අඹේපුස්ස) mainline across the Alagalla mountain to Kandy proved to be extremely challenging as it had to be navigated around a waterfall...
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The Kandy General Post Office (Sinhala: මහනුවර ප්රධාන තැපැල් කාර්යාලය - கண்டி பிரதான அஞ்சல் அலுவலகம்) is the main post office in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The...
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British Garrison Cemetery Kanatte Cemetery Kandy War Cemetery Trincomalee British War Cemetery CWGC: Colombo (Liveramentu) Cemetery Maduwage, Shihara;...
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Galle Face Burial Ground (category Former cemeteries)
heavy casualties suffered by the British army in the Kandyan War against the King of Kandy during the administration of Governor Frederick North (1801–1805)...
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Nittawela Rugby Stadium (category Buildings and structures in Kandy)
during the Second World War. The grounds were subsequently handed over to the General Hospital to house their offices. Kandy SC however continued to play...
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D. S. Senanayake Memorial Public Library (category Libraries in Kandy District)
Public Library is a public library in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is the main public library in Kandy situated in Kandy town. D.S. Senanayake Memorial Public...
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Bogambara Stadium (category Sport in Kandy)
Bogambara Stadium (Sinhala: බෝගම්බර ක්රිඩාංගනය) is a multi-purpose stadium in Kandy, Sri Lanka It is one of the oldest grounds in the country. Stadium is currently...
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List of ships named on the Tower Hill Memorial (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials commemorating 36,087 civilian merchant seamen who were lost at sea in the First and Second World Wars. During...
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and was buried in Garrison Cemetery, Kandy. His Obituary, from the Ceylon Gazette of May 29, 1824, read: "Died, at Kandy on the 25th inst at 1 O' clock...
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Denzil Kobbekaduwa (category Alumni of Trinity College, Kandy)
were travelling in hit a landmine on the island of Kayts. He was born in Kandy to a Radala family. His father was Loku Bandara Kobbekaduwa and mother was...
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This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving former kingdoms and states in the Indian subcontinent and the...
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Nyanatusita, Bhikkhu; Hecker, Hellmuth (2008). The Life of Nyanatiloka Thera. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9789552403187. OCLC 801558128...
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Thepphiphit board on a Dutch ship to be exiled to Sri Lankan Kingdom of Kandy. Phraya Phrakhlang the Minister of Trade was also implicated. Phrakhlang...
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2 volumes, 1987, 1991. Published by the Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga) by Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa....
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2008 Lebanon conflict (redirect from 2008 Lebanon War)
2008-05-09. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-10. Kandy Ringer. "Lebanon's Fighting Spreads to Druze Heartland". BBC News. Archived...
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this view of her. Carter's public interest in national policy prompted Kandy Stroud of The New York Times to speculate she might become the most activist...
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of the land near the Temple of the Tooth was used to build the Kandy garrison cemetery. In 1834 governor Horton built a path, Lady Horton's drive, in...
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Black July (category 1980s massacres of the Sri Lankan civil war)
were killed. The violence spread to the country's second largest city, Kandy, on 26 July. By 2:45 pm Delta Pharmacy on Peradeniya Road was on fire. Soon...
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