mass stoppage of work. The Ceylon Defence Force was given additional support by an armed detachment of British Royal Marines from HMS Glasgow, who were utilised to deter strikers in Colombo. The Ceylon Defence Force was officially disbanded on 11 April 1949 and reconstituted by Army Act No. 17 of 1949 which revoked the Ceylon Defence Force Ordinance of 1910 as the Ceylon Volunteer Force (CVF), itself becoming the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (SLAVF) in 1972. Impact on the Ceylon Army Soldiers who had experience in the CDF were actively recruited into the newly constructed regular force, and reconstituted volunteer force of the new Ceylon Army. In its first few years, and with few exceptions, the only new recruits enlisted were officer cadets and soldiers below the rank of warrant officer. Ceylon Defence Force veterans featured prominently in the post-independence regular Ceylon Army until General D. S. Attygalle (1967–1977) finished his term as Commander. The last Ceylon Defence Force veteran to leave the Army was Brigadier T. S. B. Sally, who ended his service tenure in 1979. Units of the Ceylon Defence Force Ceylon Light Infantry (CLI) (1881–Present) Mobilised Detachment of Ceylon Light Infantry (Mob. Det., CLI) (1917–1939) Ceylon Garrison Artillery (CGA) (1889–Present) Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps (CPRC) (1887–1949) Ceylon Cadet Battalion (CCB) (1902–Present) Ceylon Mounted Rifles (CMR) (1906–1938) Ceylon Engineers (CE) (1911–Present) Ceylon Medical Corps (CMC) (1911–Present) Colombo Town Guard (CTG) (1914–1918, 1939–1945) Town Guard Artillery (TGA) (1914–1939) Ceylon Motor Cyclist Corps (CMCC) (1915–N/A) Ceylon Supply & Transport Corps (CSTC) (1918–1949) Ceylon Signal Corps (CSC) (1943–Present) Auxiliary Territorial Service (Ceylon) (ATS (Ceylon)) (1943–1946) Royal Military Police (Ceylon) (1944–1949) Personal Its commissioned officers received their commission from the Governor, instead of the British Monarch which was the case in the British Army. Since the force was a volunteer force, its personal were made up of exclusively of the upper and middle class of the island who could spare the free time. Much of the officer carder was made up of Europeans, Burghers and a smaller extent from the Sinhalese, Tamils and Moor communities. A few Europeans had served with the British Army, vast majority were planters, landowners and professionals such as lawyers, doctors engineers and civil servants. Oxbridge graduates could easily gain a commission. Officer training was limited with, much of the training and activity were planned on weekends and at the annual training camp and exercise that took