COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka has decided to remove all remaining references to its British colonial name Ceylon from state institutions. Ceylon gained independence from Britain in ...
WREN Section, St Joseph's College Drafting Office, Far Eastern Fleet, Colombo, Ceylon - September 1944. Ldg Wren Litchfield, 2nd from right, back row. This story was submitted to the People’s War Site ...
21 April 1954: Official telegrams have already started to arrive, and messages from Prince Charles and Princess Anne will be brought by special courier Colombo, April 20 A crowd expected to number ...
“I often twiddle the short wave about,” explained Alan Blackman, 36, a fishworker of Hull, England. Listening in at 7:10 one night last week, Blackman heard: “Urgent! Will BBC contact Sir Hugh Cairns ...
Radio Ceylon, one of the world’s oldest radio broadcasters, turned 100 last week. At a time when radio was a novelty and ...
Spa Ceylon, the world’s largest luxury Ayurveda wellness brand, is proud to extend its successful collaboration with Shangri-La Colombo for another year to launch ‘Wellness Month’, which is a series ...
The year was 1942 and my father was 19 years old. As an Able Seaman, he had set sail from Wallsend on the Tyne on board HMS Dorsetshire. They docked in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). On Saturday 4 ...
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