{"id":154692,"date":"2025-06-29T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=154692"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:27:08","slug":"faarewell-commander-somasiri-devendra-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/faarewell-commander-somasiri-devendra-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Faarewell, Commander Somasiri Devendra \u2026 RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Faarewell, Commander Somasiri Devendra \u2026 RIP<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry entry-content\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/06\/29\/faarewell-commander-somasiri-devendra-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Admiral Ravindra\u00a0<\/strong><strong>C. Wijegunaratne,\u00a0in\u00a0<em>The Island<\/em>, June 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farewell Mr. Devendra! Thank you for everything and for shaping the researcher in me.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/06\/29\/faarewell-commander-somasiri-devendra-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SOMASIRI-Oone.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>LCdr (Rtd) Somasiri Devendra (1933-2025<\/strong>) passed away on 19th June 2025 having fulfilled a long and illustrious career under many hats. One that he is most remembered for, is being\u00a0<strong>one of the founders of Maritime Archaeology in Sri Lank<\/strong>a. He was instrumental in initiating underwater cultural heritage projects in Sri Lanka starting with the \u2018Sri Lanka-British Colombo Reefs Archaeological Survey\u2019 in 1989 and through the\u00a0<strong>ground-breaking maritime archaeology excavation \u2018The Galle Harbour Project\u2019 in the 1990s, where he trained the first generation of\u00a0maritime archaeologists of Sri Lanka<\/strong>. He has organized and served under various local and international programmes for the management and protection of Sri Lanka\u2019s Underwater Cultural Heritage. He was also awarded the Junior Research Fellowship of UNESCO and the Uruma Prasada Pranamaya for his services of towards the Protection and Development of National Heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I came to know you almost ten years ago where you guided me in my initial research into the history of Colombo. I will forever cherish those memories of us discussing various topics in your home in Dehiwala. Even as your eyesight was failing at 92, the teacher within you never died away. It was a pleasure serving on a panel discussion with you in January, where despite the weather, you came and shared your knowledge with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">You truly shaped me into the researcher I am today and I wish I could still call and visit you. May be one day\u2026again\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">**********<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Recollections from Michael Roberts in Adelaide, 29 June 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">My fading memory echoes Chryshane\u2019s regard for the patriotic commitments and the skills displayed by SOMASIRI DEVENDRA. The reference to his home in Dehiwela has revived a memory of my visit and chat with him in the course of my research on the moment when Rajiv Gandhi was hammered by a naval rating in the front rank of an honour guard welcoming his arrival \u2013 an event that occurred on 30th July 1987 and marked the local hostility to the Indian government\u2019s imperial imposition of a \u201cPeacekeeping Force\u201d in 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">That bold intervention was carried out by Rohana de Silva, a man from Ratgama (thus presumably of the Salagama caste). I interpreted that action as a\u00a0<strong><em>guti dheema<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in the assailant\u2019s mind (an interpretation Somasiri did NOT agree with). But\u00a0<strong>it was Somasiri who put me in touch with Lt KH Perera, the officer in charge of the Honour Guard<\/strong>. When I interviewed De Silva, he told me that during the court-martial trial that eventuated Rohana de Silva indicated that\u00a0<strong>\u201ceven if it was a broomstick he had in his hand, he would have hit him with the broomstick.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Hence my conclusion that it was a GUTI DHEEMA.**<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>MOREOVER \u2026..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Chryshane\u2019s information on Somasiri\u2019s role in promoting maritime archaeology has been news to me. It is a vital recording act to imprint knowledge of Somasiri Devendra\u2019s impact on this branch of historical research. As a swimming and surfing person born near the sea and as one who has swum in Galle harbour, Chryshane\u2019s details are like gold dust in the career of an explorer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A Hail For You, SOMASIRI \u2026. We treasure Your Life of Patriotic Fulfillment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly to your inbox!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faarewell, Commander Somasiri Devendra \u2026 RIP Source:Thuppahis Admiral Ravindra\u00a0C. Wijegunaratne,\u00a0in\u00a0The Island, June 2025 Farewell Mr. Devendra! Thank you for everything and for shaping the researcher in me. LCdr (Rtd) Somasiri Devendra (1933-2025) passed away on 19th June 2025 having fulfilled a long and illustrious career under many hats. One that he is most remembered for, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[80414,44421,29812],"class_list":{"0":"post-154692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-galle-harbour-project","9":"tag-maritime-archaeology","10":"tag-somasiri-devendra","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Faarewell, Commander Somasiri Devendra \u2026 RIP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LCdr (Rtd) Somasiri Devendra (1933-2025) passed away on 19th June 2025 having fulfilled a long and illustrious career under many hats.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, 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