Town Guard Artillery
This was the artillery element form to support the Colombo town guard formed at the outset of World War I. This absorbed in to the Ceylon Garrison Artillery when it was formed in 1918.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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That guard our native seas!
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The battle and the breeze!”
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