ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For Projects One and Two
THIS LIST IS STILL BEING UPDATED
The following persons and organizations have assisted me with my research. The locations and ranks given are at the time I received assistance from them. Sadly, many of them have since passed away.
If you have provided any assistance to me in regards to my research into ODM relating to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), directly or indirectly, and your name does not appear below (or if there are any errors), please contact me at:
In alphabetical order
Australia
Mr. Clement Andrews; Mr. Willi Boehm; Col. Douglas V. Brohier (Retd); Mr. Barrett J. Carr; The Ceylon Society of Australia; Mr. Bertie Claessen; Mr. Troy Cosgrove; Maj. Patrick L. Crozier ED (Retd); Ms. Rosamund Dalziell; Mr. Roy J. de Niese; Mr. Rex de Silva; Mr. Sergei de Silva-Ranasinghe; Mrs. Tina Dirckze Faulk; Maj. C. Felix Fernando MBE (Retd); Col. Cecil F. Fernando ED (Retd); The late Mr. David Goodrich; Mrs. Shelagh Goonewardene; Mr. David Helfgott; Mr. Errol Jacotine; Mr. Kyle Joustra; Mr. Hugh Karunanayake; Mr. Maxwell Keegel, (of the SL High Commission in Australia); Mr. Sam Kremer; Mr. Paul Lochhead; Mr Tony Mann; Mr. Graeme Marfleet; Mr. Victor Melder; Dr. Bede K. Muller; Dr. Hubert M. Muller; The late Maj.Gen. A M Muttukumaru OBE ED (Retd); Mr. David Ohlmus; Mr. Andy Palmer; Mr. Donald W. Pedler; Mrs. Decima Perera; Lt.Col. M E S Perera ED (Retd); Mr. Douglas Ranmuthugala, QPM; Mr. Kingsley Siebel; Mr. Hamish Solomons; Mr. Anthony Staunton; Mr. Jack Van Sanden; Mr. Roger Thiedeman; Mr. V. Vamadevan; Ms. Melanie Van Twest; Mr. Odath Weerasinghe.
Belgium
Mr. Wim Govaerts
Canada
Maj. Indrajith Abeyewardena (Retd);The late Mr. Kirthie Abeyesekera; The Air Force Association of Canada; The late Mr. D.C.O.T. Ameresekere; Capt. Jack Boddington KStJ; Canadian Society of Military Medals and Insignia; Brig. A P R David VSV (Retd); Mr. Glen Hodgins (formerly of the Canadian High Commission in SL); Mr. Thiru Kadirgamar; The Staff at the Metro-Toronto Reference Library; The Military Collectors' Club of Canada; The late Mr. Stephen Pallas; Mr. P. S. Perera; Capt. Prasanna Rajaratne, SLN (Retd); Mr. Kenneth Reeves; Mr. Joe Simpson; Mr. Chris Stacey; Mr. Andrew Talalla; Mr. Rohan Van Twest; Mr. Warren Willenberg.
Hong Kong
Mr. Karl Spencer
India
S/Ldr. Rana Chhina, IAF (Retd).
Israel
Mrs. Jennifer Van Der Greft
New Zealand
Mr. Aubrey Bairstow; Mr. Roy Gould; Mr. Phil Lascelles; Mr. Cliff Lord
Singapore
Mr. Mark Sellar (later Prop'r, www.aberdeenmedals,com in UK)
South Africa
Mr. Henk Loots; The Military Medal Society of South Africa; Mr. Jonathan Pittaway; Mr. D.L.K.Weakley
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Mr. Upali Amarasiri (Director General,Nat. Library of SL); A/Cdre R. Arunthavanathan, SLAF; S/Sgt. Gamini Ashoka; The late Deshamanya Gen. D.S.Attygalle LVO (Retd); Lt.Col. Shane Balthazaar (SLLI); Ms. Venita Cooke; Maj.Gen. Rohan Daluwatte WWV, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP (Commander, SL Army 1996-98); Mr. Jayashantha [Fonny] de Fonseka, Mrs Shehara de Silva; Maj. Anton Edema (CLI) Retd.; Lt. B.L.Dharmasena (Pay & Records Office); Maj. Anton Edema, SLLI (Retd); Cdr. Kumar Fernando (Cmdt KDA); Mrs. Marini Fernando-Gunesekera; Col. Chamath Gunesinghe (Pay & Records Office); Mr. Bernard Halahakoon; S/Ldr Pulasthi Jayasinghe, SLAF; Pte. D.R.Jayatilleke, CLI; Cdr. Thilak Karthelis, SLN; G/Capt Kumar Kirinde (SLAF) Retd; Mr. Daya Liyanage; Brig. R P Liyanage (AG, Army HQ); Mr. Henrik Melder; The Staff at the Dept. of National Archives of SL; Col. Lalith Peiris (Dep.Cmdt KDA); Lt.Gen. Denis Perera VSV (Retd); Capt. Rajeeva Perera; Lt.Cdr U. Tissa Perera, SLN; L/Smn. Perera (KDA); Mr. Clehan Pulle; Capt. I. P. Ranasinghe; L/Cpl. Ranjit Kumar (Photographer CCMP); Sgt. Y.H.S.Sandhanayake, CLI; Mrs Erin Senanayake; Mr and Mrs Jayantha Senanayake; Capt. Anil Seneviratne (KDA); Lt.Col. Deepal Subasinghe RSP (CO, HQ Bn).; Lt. Cdr. Isuru Suriyabandara (SLN Media Unit); Vino and Ravi Thampapillai; Capt. Dammika Tennekoon; CPO. P.K.Themis, SLN; A/M.Jayalath Weerakkody RWP VSV USP (CO, SLAF); S/Sgt. Weerasekera; Maj. W A A C P Weragoda (Pay & Records Office); Capt. Wijeratne, CLI; Ms. Ashinsa de S Wijeyeratne; Mrs. Audrey de S Wijeyeratne; Ms. Rashmi de S Wijeyeratne; Ms. Samantha de S Wijeyeratne; Mr. Sanith de S Wijeyeratne; Mr. Sriyan de S Wijeyeratne; Mr. Surein de S Wijeyeratne; .
Switzerland
Mr. Andrew Pattison;
Turkey
Mr. M. E. B. Windus
United Kingdom
Ms. F. Alden (Dep. Curator, Museum and Library of the Order of St.John); Mr. Stuart W. Allan (Curator, The Gordon Highlanders Museum); Mr. Kevin Asplin; Mr. L. Ball (The Commonwealth War Graves Commission); Mr. Craig Barclay; Mr. Mark Barnard; Mr. John Bristow; Mr. Matthew Broadbridge; Mr. Stuart Brown; Mr. Colin Bruce (IWM); Mr. Christopher Buyers; Maj.R.D.Cassidy MBE (Retd) (Curator The Royal Green Jackets Museum); Mr. John Gibson Chalmers; Mr. Michael Chapman; Mr. Roger Chapman (Green Howards Museum); Mr. Jonathan Collins; Lt.Col. J.P.B. Condon MBE (Retd) (Army Medal Office); Ms. Jane Davies (Curator, Queen's Lancashire Regt Museum); Mr. Rob Davis; Mr. Daneelo de Kretser; Mr. David de Kretser; Mr. Andrew Dep; Mr. Norman Didwell; Mr. Paul Edmunds; Mr. Barry Elkin; Mr. David Erskine-Hill; Mr. Laurie Evanson-Goddard; Mr. Tim Ferguson; Mr. William H. Fevyer; Mr. Paul France; Mr. Malcolm Gordon (of Gordon's Medals); Maj. K. Gray (Retd) (Curator, Royal Green Jackets Museum); Dr. Kevin Greenbank (Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge Univ.), Mr. D. Peter Gronow; Ms. Shevanthie Goonesekera; Mr. Colin Hague; Mr. Michael Haines; Mr. Michael Hargreave-Mawson; Mr. Peter M.R.Helmore; Mr. H. C. Hernaman DFC (No 156 Sqn Assn); Mr. Cliff Housley (Regt. Historian,The Sherwood Foresters Museum); Mr. Trevor Hudson; Mr. David Jones (Medals Section, Registry of Shipping and Seamen); Mr. David Jones (Colombo Minesweeping Roll); Mr. Chris Keller; Mr. Simon Kularatne; Mr. Alan Lagden; Mr.Stephen Lewis; Maj. T.R.Lill MBE, (Retd) (Curator, The Royal Logistics Corps Regt. Museum); Mr. John Lindop; Mr. Alan Little; Mr. G. J. Long; Maj. C. J. Louch (Retd) (RHQ Coldstream Guards); Maj. A.J.Maher MBE (Retd) (Asst. Regt. Secy, The Queen's Lancashire Regt.); Viscount Maitland; Lt.Col. Anthony Mather CVO OBE (Secy., Central Chancery of The Orders of Knighthood); Mr. David McCarthy; Lt.Col. Neil D. McIntosh MBE (RHQ The Green Howards); Mr. Christopher Mellor-Hill (Head of Client Liaison – DNW); Mr. Ian Miller; Mrs. Patricia Morant; Mr. John Morley-Clarke; Mr. M.B.Murphy (The Royal Ulster Rifles Assn.); Mr. Geoffrey Negus; Mr. Gerry O'Neill; Orders and Medals Research Society; Mr. Roger Perkins; Mr. Harvey Peters; Ms. Tina Pittock (Curator, Airborne Forces Museum); Raymond Holdich Medals; Mr. Richard A. Reincke; Mr. David Roberts; Mr. Jeffrey 'Robbie' Robinson; Rev. Damon Rogers; Mr. Joseph Ryan; Mr. Graham Sacker; Ms. Maia Sheridan (Manuscripts Archivist (Univ. of St Andrew’s); Miss. K Simons (The Guards Museum); Malcolm Sinclair, the Earl of Caithness; Mr. John Sly; Mr. W. W. Smith (The Gordon Highlanders Museum); Mr. Thomas B. Smyth (Archivist, RHQ The Black Watch); Mr. Stephen Stratford; Mr. Geoff Summers; Mr. John Tamplin MBE TD; Mr. Roy Tate; Mr. Andrew Tatham; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Theobald; Mr. Rod Thorn; Mr. Rick Thornton; Mr. Mike Toogood; Mr. David Warren; Mr. J. V. Webb; Mr. Richard Webb; Mrs. Bronwen Wilkin; Mr. Howard Williamson; Mr. Nigel Wilson; Mr. James Wright (No 166 Sqn Assn.)
USA
Mr. Suresh Atapattu; Mr. Carlyle Bagot; Mr. William Brown; Mr. Richard Flory; Mr. Jeffrey B. Floyd (Floyd's Medals); Mr. Jack Guss II; Capt. Gale Hawkes; Mr. Ed Haynes; Mr. John Shanaka Silva; Mr. Gregory L. Singer; Mr. Nathan Weiss; Mr. Paul Wallace; Mr. Paul Williams.
ONLINE
Suvendrini Christopher-Schuhmann; Anouki Cooke; Jacquelynne Cooray; Shohan Edirisinghe; Chandra Fernandez; Russell White.