ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For Projects One and Two now combined and divided into 6 volumes

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 (names in italics).

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:

ceylon_medals@hotmail.com

In alphabetical order

Australia

Mr. Clement Andrews; Mr. Richard and Mrs. Sue Arendtsz; Ms. Julie Auger-Brown; Mr. Willi Boehm; Col. Douglas V. Brohier (Retd); Mr. Terry Brooks; Mr. Barrett J. Carr; The Ceylon Society of Australia; Mr. Bertie Claessen; Mr. David Connolly; 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; Mr. Rob Droogleever; Dr. Peter Ebell; Mrs. Arlene Ekenaike; Mr. Gehan  Ekneligoda; Maj. Ceada Felix Fernando MBE (Retd); Col. Cecil F. Fernando ED (Retd); Mr. David Goodrich; Mrs. Shelagh Goonewardene; Ms. Rosie Greenfield; Mr. David Helfgott; Maj. Richard Hermon (Retd); Mr. David Hood; Mr. Errol Jacotine; Ms. Valerie James; Mr. Kyle Joustra; Mr. Gary Kalem; Mr. Hugh Karunanayake; Mr. Maxwell Keegel, (SL High Comm’n in Australia); Mr. Carl Konstz; Mr. Sam Kremer; Mr. Richard Leemen; Mr. Paul Lochhead; Mr Tony Mann; Mr. Graeme Marfleet; Mr. Victor Melder; Dr. Bede K. Muller; Dr. Hubert M. Muller; Maj.Gen. A M Muttukumaru OBE ED (Retd); Mr. Jim Nuttall; 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. Suren Ratwatte; Regimental Books; Mr. Kingsley Siebel; Mr. Hamish Solomons; Mr. Anthony Staunton; Mr. John Sweetman (Army Museum of W. Australia); Mr. Rohan Titus; 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); Mr. Kirthie Abeyesekera; The Air Force Association of Canada; Mr. D.C.O.T. Ameresekere; Capt. Jack Boddington KStJ; The Canadian Society of Military Medals and Insignia; Brig. A P R David VSV (Retd); Mr. Glen Hodgins; Mr. Thiru Kadirgamar; The Staff, Metro-Toronto Reference Library; The Military Collectors’ Club of Canada; Mr. Stephen Pallas; Mr. Srilal Perera; WO1 Kenneth Reeves (Retd); Mr. Joe Simpson; Mr. Chris Stacey; Ms. Sarah Strachan (Vancouver Pony Club); Mr. Andrew Talalla; Mr. Eugene Ursual; 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

Netherlands

Mr. Beverley van der Gert

New Zealand

Mr. Aubrey Bairstow;  Mr. Roy Gould; Mr. Phil Lascelles; Ms. Christine Liava'a; Mr. Cliff Lord; Ms. Sandy Austin

Singapore

Mr. Mark Sellar (now Prop’r of Aberdeen Medals in UK); Lt.Col. Dato Paul Supramaniam

South Africa

Mr. Henk Loots; The Military Medal Society of South Africa; Mr. Jonathan Pittaway; Mr. Randolph Jones; Mr. D.L.K.Weakley; Ms. Emma Whitehead (Strauss & Co)

Sri Lanka

Mr. Upali Amarasiri (Dir.-Gen.,Nat. Library of SL); Mrs. Aloma Amerasekera (now in Australia); Mr. Quintus Andradi; A/Cdre R. Arunthavanathan, SLAF; S/Sgt. Gamini Ashoka; Lt.Gen. H V Athukorale VSV (Retd); Deshamanya Gen. D.S.Attygalle LVO (Retd); Lt.Col. Shane Balthazaar (SLLI); Mr. David Blacker; Ms. Venita Cooke; Gen. Rohan Daluwatte WWV, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP; Mr. Jayashantha [Fonny] de Fonseka, Mrs. Shehara De Silva; Lt. B. L. Dharmasena (Pay & Records Office); Maj. Anton Edema (Retd);  Cdr. Kumar Fernando (Cmdt KDA); Mr. Aslam Fidha; Mrs. Marini Goonesekera; Col. Chamath Gunesinghe (Pay & Records Office); Mr. Bernard Halahakoon; Brig. Hiran Halangode (Retd); Mr. Mohamed Irfan; Mr. Jeff Jacotine;  S/Ldr Pulasthi Jayasinghe, SLAF; Pte. D. R. Jayatilleke, CLI; Cdr. Thilak Karthelis, SLN; G/Cpt. Kumar Kirinde SLAF (Retd); Mr. Mahesh Kularatne; Mr. Daya Liyanage; Brig. R P Liyanage (AG, Army HQ); Ms. Gitanjali Marcelline Mr. Henrik Melder; Mr. Laksiri Mendis; The Staff, Dept. of National Archives of SL; Mr. Sheannal Anthony Obeyesekere; Col. Lalith Peiris (Dep.Cmdt KDA); Lt.Gen. Denis Perera VSV (Retd); Capt. Rajeeva Perera; Ms. Surani Perera (ceylontoday.lk); Lt.Cdr U. Tissa Perera, SLN; L/Smn. Perera (KDA); Mr. Clehan Pulle; Capt. Prasanna Rajaratne SLN (Retd); Capt. I.P.Ranasinghe; L/Cpl. Ranjit Kumar (Photographer CCMP); Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga; 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).; L/Cdr Isuru Suriyabandara (Media Officer SLN); Mrs. Vino and Mr. 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; The de S Wijeyeratne family (Audrey, Sriyan, Samantha, Sanith, Surein, Ashinsa and Rashmi).

Switzerland

Mr. Andrew Pattison

Turkey

Mr. M. E. B. Windus

UK

Ms. F. Alden (Dep. Curator, Museum and Library of the Order of St.John); Mr. Stuart W. Allan (Curator, The Gordon Hldrs Museum); Mr. Kevin Asplin; Mr. L. Ball (CWGC); Mr. Craig Barclay; Mr. Mark Barnard; Mr. Bulent Basaran; Bosley’s Auctions; Mr. John Bristow; Mr. Matthew Broadbridge; Mr. Alan Brocklehurst; Mr. Chris Brooks (OMRS); 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. Mark Cline; Mr. Jonathan Collins; Lt.Col. J.P.B. Condon MBE (Retd) (Army Medal Office); Ms. Abigail Cornick (Curator, Museum, Order of St. John); 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. Chris Dixon (CJ & AJ Dixon Ltd); Mr. Hugh Dodgson; Mr. John Eagle; 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. Keith Fuller; Mr. Jim Galloway; Mr. Malcolm Gordon (Gordon’s Medals); Maj. K. Gray (Retd) (Curator, Royal Green Jackets Museum); Dr. Kevin Greenbank (Centre of South Asian Studies, Camb. Univ.), Mr. Kevin Greig (Manager, Court of the Lord Lyon); Mr. D. Peter Gronow; Ms. Shevanthie Goonesekera; Mr. Colin Hague; Mr. Michael Haines; Mr. Michael Hargreave-Mawson; Mr. Keith Hartwell; Mr. Peter M.R.Helmore; Mr. H.C.Hernaman DFC (No 156 Sqn Assn); Mr. Mark Higton; Maj. Tim Holbech MBE (Retd); Mr. Cliff Housley (Regt. Historian,The Sherwood Foresters Museum); Mr. Trevor Hudson; Mr. David Jones; Mr. Chris Keller; Mr. Simon Kularatne; Mr. Alan Lagden; Mr. Steve Law (Great War Medals); Mr.Stephen Lewis; Maj. T.R.Lill MBE, (Retd) (Curator, The Royal Logistics Corps Regt. Museum); Mr. John Lindop; Mr. Alan Little; Liverpool Medals; London Medal Co.; 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.); Ian, 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, Client Liaison, Noonans Mayfair); Mr. Ian Miller; Mrs. Patricia Morant; Mr. John Morley-Clarke; Morton & Eden; Mr. M.B.Murphy (The Royal Ulster Rifles Assn.); National Army Museum; National Maritime Museum; Mr. Geoffrey Negus; Noonans Mayfair (formerly Dix, Noonan and Web); 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. Paul Riches; Mr. David Roberts; Mr. Jeffrey 'Robbie' Robinson; Rev. Damon Rogers; 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 Hldrs Museum); Mrs. Smurthwaite (NAM); Mr. Thomas B. Smyth (Archivist, RHQ The Black Watch); Sotheby’s; Spink & Son Ltd; 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. Ian Wilmshurst; Mr. Nigel Wilson; Woolley & Wallis; Mr. James Wright (No 166 Sqn Assn.)

USA

Mr. Sidath Abeywickrama; Mr. Ajith Amerasekera; 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; Ms. Anula Jayasuriya; Ms. Cheryl Kater; Capt. Joseph Ryan; Mr. John Shanaka Silva (now in Canada); Mr. Gregory L. Singer; Mr. Nathan Weiss; Mr. Paul Wallace; Mr. Paul Williams.

ONLINE

Ms. Pauline Andree; Angloboerwar.com; Ms. Vanessa Aprille; David Colin-Thome at HistoryofCeylonTea.com; Ms. Suvendrini Christopher-Schuhmann; Ms. Anouki Cooke; Ms. Jacquelynne Cooray; Mr. Shohan Edirisinghe, Chandra Fernandez; Gentlemens Military Interest Club [gmic.co.uk]; Mr. David Le Cheval, Mr. James A Paterson; Prof. Michael Roberts [thuppahis.com]; Hirantha and Chithrangi Rodrigo; Ms. Tania Schokman; Mr. Russell White.