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Revision as of 12:59, 15 August 2009
Ceylon Rifle Regiment (CRR) was a regular native regiment formed by the British in Ceylon. Its history goes back to 1795 when five independent companies of Malays where transferred from Dutch to HEIC service. Since then the regiment under deferent names had fought for the British in the Kandyan War and the Uva Rebellion of 1818 The action the Ceylon Rifle Regiment saw was in the Matale Rebellion in 1848. Since it served no practical application and was disbanded in 1873.