Brigadier G. R. Jayasinghe, VSV was a Sri Lankan military officer, who was the former head of the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps and founder of the Sri Lanka Rifle Corps in 1984.
[1][2] Educated at Royal College, Colombo, he joined the army after leaving school.
He was commissioned into the Ceylon Army Ordnance Corps as a Second Lieutenant.
He served as the Commanding officer of the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps from 1966 to 1969 and from 1969 to 1974.
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