Which famous people have you outlived?

Denis Perera

Sri Lankan general and diplomat

Died when: 82 years 305 days (994 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Denis Perera

General Deshamanya Joseph Everard Denis Perera, VSV, FCMI (10 October 1930 – 11 August 2013) was a senior Sri Lanka Army officer who served as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1977 to 1981.

He was also the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ceylon Tobacco Company and Chancellor of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.

He envisioned for a women's corps in the army which resulted in the creation of the Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps in 1979.


This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License