yeadon Posted 27 April , 2010 Share Posted 27 April , 2010 Is any member of the Forum able to tell me if members of the Ceylon Tea Planters Company who lost their lives in World War One are commemorated by name on any memorials in Sri Lanka? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high wood Posted 28 April , 2010 Share Posted 28 April , 2010 Do you mean the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur J Posted 28 April , 2010 Share Posted 28 April , 2010 if it is the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps the "Geoffs (wonderful) search engine can identify six H A Carisle 2076 02/05/1915 A Forrest 2163 02/05/2015 A N Galbraith Captain 16/02/2015 L H R Grey 1778 15/09/2014 G Middlemiss 2022 06/05/2015 L N Were 2028 12/05/2015 Faugh a Ballagh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeadon Posted 7 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 7 May , 2010 Yes. I am specifically seeking to know if any of their deaths are named on memorials in Sri Lanka itself. Do you mean the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 7 May , 2010 Share Posted 7 May , 2010 There was once a Ceylon Rifles that wore the old Rifle Brigade uniform apart from bare feet and a blue turban on a wire frame, armed with the Baker Rifle. Is this a descendant unit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisharley9 Posted 8 May , 2010 Share Posted 8 May , 2010 Name: MIDDLEMISS, GUY Initials: G Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Rifleman Regiment/Service: Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps Age: 23 Date of Death: 06/05/1915 Service No: 2022 Additional information: Born at Rawalpindi, India. Son of C. S. Middlemiss, C.I.E., F.R.S., and Mrs. Middlemiss, of Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 36. Cemetery: BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droberts Posted 17 May , 2010 Share Posted 17 May , 2010 Is any member of the Forum able to tell me if members of the Ceylon Tea Planters Company who lost their lives in World War One are commemorated by name on any memorials in Sri Lanka? I think someone published a book on them very recently. They used to have an annual lunch in Ceylon. The association gradualy became a general ex service comrades association which still has an annual comrades lunch in London. A number of CPRC were commissioned at and after Gallipoli. I imagine that they have a memorial in Sri Lanka but they certainly had plaques to fallen comrades from ww1 in the planters clubs. Should be one in the queens club in colombo if its still there regards David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droberts Posted 19 May , 2010 Share Posted 19 May , 2010 I think someone published a book on them very recently. They used to have an annual lunch in Ceylon. The association gradualy became a general ex service comrades association which still has an annual comrades lunch in London. A number of CPRC were commissioned at and after Gallipoli. I imagine that they have a memorial in Sri Lanka but they certainly had plaques to fallen comrades from ww1 in the planters clubs. Should be one in the queens club in colombo if its still there regards David The History of the CMR and CPRC was published late in 2009 in the UK authored by Mrs Dawn Waring as a limited edition. You might be able to borrow a copy from the British Library. regards David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeadon Posted 25 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 25 May , 2010 The History of the CMR and CPRC was published late in 2009 in the UK authored by Mrs Dawn Waring as a limited edition. You might be able to borrow a copy from the British Library. regards David Thankyou for this David; very helpful. Will seek this out. Stillearning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr23051917 Posted 28 May , 2010 Share Posted 28 May , 2010 Is any member of the Forum able to tell me if members of the Ceylon Tea Planters Company who lost their lives in World War One are commemorated by name on any memorials in Sri Lanka? Cant help re actual names - but there is a smallish , incredibly well kept cemetery on the banks of the Mahaveli (great sandy river) outside Kandy. This is a war cemetery surrounded by "Pride of Burma" trees and is kept in a very manicured state by the very diligent staff.The graves are very much a mixed bag from all over Sri Lanka.A lot from WW 2 from memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominion-of-the-North Posted 1 November , 2010 Share Posted 1 November , 2010 Afraid I just stumbled across this posting. Their names are recorded on several monuments around the island. All are recorded at the main cenotaph in the S/W corner of Victoria Park in Colombo (which I think has been renamed Viharamahadevi Park); and then there are several "provincial" memorials in places like Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Badulla, Batticaloa, Kurunegala, etc., which carry the names of local chappies. Attached, please find a photo of the main cenotaph I took on a very rainy (monsoon) day in 1999. Cheers, Glen, In Our Dominion of the North Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta Posted 6 March , 2011 Share Posted 6 March , 2011 A party of 79 memeber of the CPRC arrived in London, from Colombo, on 13th December 1914. One of them, Herbert Hiscock had emlisted on 9th November and, immediately on arrival travelled to Winchester where he enlisted in the Rifle bde. He was commissioned into the North Lancs regiment five weeks later. He was a tank section commander, supporting the Guards Division at the battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmart42 Posted 10 June , 2013 Share Posted 10 June , 2013 Does anyone know anything of a Stephen B Cooke of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps please? His record show he enlisted in 1914, but died in Ceylon in 1915. Its not clear from the Times newspaper announcement whether he died of wounds received abroad or illness? Any information would be useful. He is on our School war memorial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmania Posted 10 June , 2013 Share Posted 10 June , 2013 The Ceylon Observer of 23 September 1914 reports that No 886 Trooper S B Cooke of 3 Galle Face Cottages, Colombo was enrolled in No 1 Troop, B Squadron of the CMR. Also, the Ceylon Observer of 17 June 1915 has the following: C.M.R Regimental Orders: Obituary:- The Commanding Officer regrets to announce the death of Trooper S B Cooke, No 1 Troop, B Squadron, who is struck off from the 5th instant. - [sgd] A E Andrews, Captain, Major, Acting Adjutant, C.M.R. and C.P.R.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmania Posted 10 June , 2013 Share Posted 10 June , 2013 I've just found a detailed report of his funeral. I can send you a copy if you PM me with your email address. He was buried in the General Cemetery, Borella. It was reported as a sudden death from sunstroke, caught whilst patrolling the streets of Colombo. Aled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perth Digger Posted 10 June , 2013 Share Posted 10 June , 2013 Another former Ceylon PRC man (1910-1915) who fought at Flers and was killed on 15/9/1916 was Lt Albert Humphrey Pinder, 1/Leicester Regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctuarywood Posted 9 March Share Posted 9 March In case anyone's returning to this in the future, there's a memorial for the dead of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps at Diyatalawa, where their initial training took place. Given the site is still an active army base, it requires special permission to access. The memorial has 78 names, of whom almost all appear on the national memorial in Colombo. Many of them also appear on other memorials across Sri Lanka. On 10/06/2013 at 16:32, ssmart42 said: Does anyone know anything of a Stephen B Cooke of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps please? His record show he enlisted in 1914, but died in Ceylon in 1915. Its not clear from the Times newspaper announcement whether he died of wounds received abroad or illness? Any information would be useful. He is on our School war memorial. Interestingly, Cooke doesn't appear on the CPRC memorial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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