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Post and Telegraph Signals
Active 1955 - 1956
Country Ceylon
Branch Ceylon Army
Role Communication

Post and Telegraph Signals was a (reserve) regiment of the Ceylon Army. Raised in 1955 with staff from the Department of Post and Ceylon Telegraph Department. The government hoped to minimized the effects to the Post and Telegraph services in the event of trade union action (strikes were common) by mobilizing the personnel attached to this unit. However it was disbanded in 1956 when the leftist S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike became prime minister.

See also[]

  • General Post Office, Colombo
  • Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka Post
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