Lieutenant General Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP was a senior Sri Lankan Army officer who served in the 1971 Insurrection and the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Denzil Kobbekaduwa in Major General insignia
Lieutenant General Denzil Kobbekaduwa Memorial at Araly Point
Denzil Kobbekaduwa Statue at Kandy
Lieutenant General Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa Statue at Kandy.
Radala refers to a small minority group in Sri Lanka in the former provinces of the Kingdom of Kandy, who are either descendants of chiefs and courtiers of the King of Kandy of Nayaks of Kandy or desc
Denzil Kobbekaduwa
…of his senior staff in his command killed when the Land Rover they 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 Lona Ratwatte. He was their second child and eldest of three sons. He spent his early…
A Dissava and a Buddhist monk in 1821.
A group of Kandyan Chiefs from Tennent's Ceylon, published in 1859.
A group of British appointed Kandyan chiefs, with Hon. J. P. Lewis, Government Agent in 1905. The chiefs have adopted the dress of traditional Dissawas by this time but still haven't started using other traditional insignia of high offices such as jewellery, ceremonial daggers or footwear.
Front Centre (seated):John Henry Meediniya Adigar with his family in 1905. Rear Centre (standing): his daughter, Alice, who married the low-country newspaper magnate D. R. Wijewardena in 1916.