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Nalin K. B. Angammana () (1945 – 1995) was a senior

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officer, who was the former

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, 3 Division.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Angammana was educated at

Dharmaraja College Dharmaraja College (), founded in 1887, is a boys' school in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist school with around 300+ teaching staff and over 4,000+ students. A land area of is owned by the school spreading over half of the Dharmaraja hill ...

Military career

Joining the Ceylon Army, Angammana as an

officer cadet Officer cadet is a rank held by military personnel during their training to become commissioned officers. In the United Kingdom, the rank is also used by personnel of University Service Units such as the University Officers' Training Corps. Th ...

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

, 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

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few hours prior. His vehicle hit a pressure mine buried by the

off Valaichenai the resulting explosion killed Major General Angammana and three other officers and wounded 13 other soldiers. 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

and the Lieutenant General N K B Angammana Memorial Hall named in his honor at the regimental headquarters of the Sri Lanka Engineers.

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Early life and education

Military career

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