Ernest Chelliah Jebanesan - Superintendent of Police (Colombo) Terrence "Terry" Victor Wijesinghe - Assistant Superintendent of Police, Personal Assistant to DIG Range I Lionel Christopher Stanley Jirasinghe - Assistant Superintendent of Police David Senadirajah Thambyah - Assistant Superintendent of Police (found guilty) Civilians Don John Francis Douglas Liyanage, CCS - Deputy Director of Land Development (found guilty) Rodney de Mel - Planter (found guilty) Samuel Gardner Jackson - Planter Others arrested as conspirators Lieutenant Colonel J.H.V. de Alwis - Commanding Officer, 2nd Volunteer Engineers, Ceylon Engineers J.F. Bede Johnpillai - Assistant Superintendent of Police, Traffic Colin Van den Driesen - Assistant Superintendent of Police, Officer in Charge of police depot, Thimbirigasyaya (now Police Field Force Headquarters) See also Coup d'état List of coups d'état and coup attempts 1966 alleged Ceylonese coup d'état attempt References External links Significance of the abortive 1962 military coup Memoirs of Sirima R.D. Bandaranaike, Quelling the 1962 Coup : Braved it all to save democracy THE QUEEN v. Looking back on operation `Holdfast' He stood by the country when democracy was in peril, 18th death anniversary of the 7th post-independence IGP ~ Stanley Senanayake Coup d'etat of 1962 and Police rugby Coup of 1962: an inside story, by former diplomat T.D.S.A. Dissanayaka, son of C.C. "Jungle" Dissanayake Conspiracies to overthrow Government - I: Conspiracies to overthrow Government - II Coup of 1962 in Sinhala The Inside Story by Pieter Keuneman in Sinhala 1 The Inside Story by Pieter Keuneman in Sinhala 2 The Inside Story by Pieter Keuneman in Sinhala 3 Military history of Sri Lanka History of Sri Lanka (1948–present) Ceylonese Coup D'etat Attempt, 1962 Ceylon Attempted coups in Sri Lanka