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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_27_February_1941" title="Action of 27 February 1941">27 February 1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_8_May_1941" title="Action of 8 May 1941">8 May 1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_HMAS_Sydney" title="Sinking of HMAS Sydney"><i>Sydney</i> and <i>Kormoran</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_raiders_in_the_Indian_Ocean" title="Japanese raiders in the Indian Ocean">Japanese merchant raiders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Andaman_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands">Andaman Islands</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homfreyganj_massacre" title="Homfreyganj massacre">Homfreyganj massacre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Christmas_Island" title="Battle of Christmas Island">Christmas Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid" title="Indian Ocean raid">1st Indian Ocean</a> <ul><li><a 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href="/wiki/Action_of_17_July_1944" title="Action of 17 July 1944">17 July 1944</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <p>The <b>Cocos Islands mutiny</b> was a failed <a href="/wiki/Mutiny" title="Mutiny">mutiny</a> by <a href="/wiki/British_Ceylon" title="British Ceylon">Sri Lankan</a> soldiers against <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> officers, on the <a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a> on 8 May 1942, during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>. </p><p>The mutineers attempted to seize control of the islands and disable the British <a href="/wiki/Garrison" title="Garrison">garrison</a>. However, the mutiny was defeated, the mutineers punished, and the three ringleaders executed; the only <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">British Commonwealth</a> servicemen to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cocos_Islands_mutiny&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_in_World_War_II" title="Ceylon in World War II">Ceylon in World War II</a></div> <p>Units belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Defence_Force" title="Ceylon Defence Force">Ceylon Defence Force</a> (CDF), including the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Garrison_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Garrison Artillery">Ceylon Garrison Artillery</a> (CGA), the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Light_Infantry" title="Sri Lanka Light Infantry">Ceylon Light Infantry</a> (CLI) and the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Volunteer_Medical_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps">Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps</a>, were mobilised on 2 September 1939, the day before Britain declared war on <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. The CGA was equipped with six-inch (152 mm) and nine-inch (227 mm) guns. Several of them were posted to the <a href="/wiki/Seychelles" title="Seychelles">Seychelles</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cocos_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Cocos Islands">Cocos Islands</a>, accompanied by contingents of the CLI and the Medical Corps. The full contingent of the CDF in the Cocos Islands numbered around 75 personnel. It was under the command of Captain George Gardiner, an accountant of an export firm in Colombo at the outbreak of war, he had obtained an emergency war commission. Two six-inch guns were deployed on Horsburgh Island, Cocos Atoll, as well as a platoon of the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_African_Rifles" title="King's African Rifles">King's African Rifles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-klemen_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klemen-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse" title="Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse">sinking of <i>Prince of Wales</i> and <i>Repulse</i></a> and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore" title="Fall of Singapore">fall of Singapore</a> did to British and Imperial forces what <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> had to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">Americans</a>: compromised their ability to defend their interests north of Australia and east of India. The Japanese raids into the Indian Ocean, resulting in the loss of two cruisers and the <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(95)" title="HMS Hermes (95)"><i>Hermes</i></a>, threw Allied war plans in the entire Southwest Pacific Area into chaos. </p><p>With the Japanese successes, public sentiment on Ceylon increased in favour of the Japanese; encouraged by successful Japanese-trained and -directed rebellions in Indonesia and support for Japanese forces in Thailand, <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Sinkiang</a> and the Philippines, many Ceylonese hoped that the Japanese would help them gain independence. At this time a young <a href="/wiki/J.R._Jayawardene" class="mw-redirect" title="J.R. Jayawardene">J.R. Jayawardene</a>, later to be President of Sri Lanka, held discussions with the Japanese with this aim in mind. However, this was immediately stopped by <a href="/wiki/Don_Stephen_Senanayake" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Stephen Senanayake">D S Senanayake</a> who collaborated with the Colonial Government, being rewarded with the Premiership, being hand-picked to lead the post-colonial government after 1948.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mutiny">Mutiny</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cocos_Islands_mutiny&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mutiny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the night of 8 May, 30 out of 56 personnel of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on <a href="/wiki/Horsburgh_Island" title="Horsburgh Island">Horsburgh Island</a> in the Cocos Islands mutinied, intending to hand the islands over to the Japanese. The plan was to arrest Captain Gardiner, the British Battery Commanding Officer and his deputy, Lieutenant Stephens, disarm the troops loyal to the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>, turn the 6-inch guns on the CLI troops on Direction Island, and to signal the Japanese on <a href="/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island">Christmas Island</a>, which the Japanese had occupied on 3 March 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the soldiers all proved to be poor shots with small arms: one soldier, Gunner Samaris Jayasekera, was killed; Lieutenant Stephens was wounded by them; and the rebels' sole <a href="/wiki/Bren_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Bren gun">Bren gun</a> jammed at a crucial moment as <a href="/wiki/Gratien_Fernando" title="Gratien Fernando">Gratien Fernando</a>, the leader of the mutiny, had it aimed at Gardiner. The rebels then attempted to turn the 6-inch guns on Direction Island, but were overpowered.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Messages sent by Fernando were received in Ceylon, indicating that there was co-operation between him and both the CLI troops and the Australian signalers on Direction Island, however, none of them took part in the mutiny. The CLI helped to put down the mutineers. He declared he had surrendered on condition that he would be tried in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>; it may be that he intended to give a speech from the dock to inspire his compatriots. However, the 15 mutineers were court-martialed on the Cocos Islands by Gardiner. Seven of the men who were found guilty were sentenced to death, with four of these sentences commuted to terms of imprisonment.<sup id="cite_ref-klemen_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klemen-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gunner Samaris Jayasekera was buried with full military honours on Horsburgh Island on the evening of 10 May and later reburied in Singapore's <a href="/wiki/Kranji_War_Memorial" title="Kranji War Memorial">Kranji War Memorial</a>. </p><p>The condemned mutineers were shipped back to Ceylon, imprisoned at the military jail in Flagstaff Street and then at military detention barracks at Hulftsdorp. The families of the condemned appealed to Sir <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goonetilleke" title="Oliver Goonetilleke">Oliver Goonetilleke</a>, then Civil Defence Commissioner and a member of the War Council to save them, <a href="/wiki/H._W._Amarasuriya" title="H. W. Amarasuriya">H. W. Amarasuriya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Susantha_de_Fonseka" title="Susantha de Fonseka">Susantha de Fonseka</a>, members of the <a href="/wiki/State_Council_of_Ceylon" title="State Council of Ceylon">State Council</a>, also made representations to the Governor <a href="/wiki/Sir" title="Sir">Sir</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Caldecott" title="Andrew Caldecott">Andrew Caldecott</a> and <a href="/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Layton" title="Geoffrey Layton">Geoffrey Layton</a>, requesting clemency. However, their pleas failed. </p><p>Fernando was defiant to the end, confidently believing that he would be remembered as a patriot, and refused a commutation of punishment. He was executed on 5 August 1942 at Welikada Prison, and two other mutineers shortly thereafter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cocos_Islands_mutiny&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The three mutineers were the only British Commonwealth troops to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. The CDF detachment in Cocos Islands returned just before Christmas 1942, these veterans had their promotions suspended and denied the campaign medals for active war service. No Ceylonese combat regiment was deployed by the British in a combat situation after the Cocos Islands Mutiny. However, support units were deployed, most notably in North Africa. The defences of Ceylon were increased to three British army <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a> because the island was strategically important, holding almost all the British Empire's resources of <a href="/wiki/Rubber" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubber">rubber</a> that remained after the fall of <a href="/wiki/British_Malaya" title="British Malaya">Malaya</a>. Rationing was instituted so that the Ceylonese were comparatively better fed than their Indian neighbours, in order to prevent disaffection among the natives.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">LSSP</a>'s anti-colonial agitation now included references to the Cocos Islands Mutiny as public opposition at British colonial rule continued to grow. Goonetilleke, the Civil Defence Commissioner claimed that the British commander of Ceylon, Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton called him a 'black bastard'.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mutineers">Mutineers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cocos_Islands_mutiny&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mutineers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The men who were convicted by <a href="/wiki/Court_martial" class="mw-redirect" title="Court martial">court martial</a> of mutiny were: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bombardier_(rank)" title="Bombardier (rank)">Bombardier</a> <a href="/wiki/Gratien_Fernando" title="Gratien Fernando">Gratien Fernando</a> (executed 5 August 1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunner_(rank)" title="Gunner (rank)">Gunner</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Carlo_Augustus_Gauder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carlo Augustus Gauder (page does not exist)">Carlo Augustus Gauder</a> (executed 7 August 1942)</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=G._Benny_de_Silva&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="G. Benny de Silva (page does not exist)">G. Benny de Silva</a> (executed 8 August 1942)</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=R._S._Hamilton_(Gunner)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. S. Hamilton (Gunner) (page does not exist)">R. S. Hamilton</a> — death sentence commuted to penal servitude for three years</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lance_Bombardier" class="mw-redirect" title="Lance Bombardier">Lance Bombardier</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kingsley_W._J._Diasz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kingsley W. J. Diasz (page does not exist)">Kingsley W. J. Diasz</a> — death sentence commuted to penal servitude for four years</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=A._Joseph_L._Peries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. Joseph L. Peries (page does not exist)">A. Joseph L. Peries</a> — death sentence commuted to penal servitude for four years</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerry_D._Anandappa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerry D. Anandappa (page does not exist)">Gerry D. Anandappa</a> — death sentence commuted to penal servitude for three years</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=A._B._Edema&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. B. Edema (page does not exist)">A. B. Edema</a> — imprisonment for one year without hard labour</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=M._A._Hopman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. A. Hopman (page does not exist)">M. A. Hopman</a> — penal servitude for three years</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=F._J._Daniels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="F. J. Daniels (page does not exist)">F. J. Daniels</a> — penal servitude for seven years</li> <li>Gunner <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_R._Porritt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kenneth R. Porritt (page does not exist)">Kenneth R. Porritt</a> — imprisonment for one year with hard labour</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cocos_Islands_mutiny&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Publication, Colombo, 1996</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cocos_Islands_mutiny&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/080420/Plus/plus00001.html">The Cocos Mutiny, 66 years on, as recalled by (Donny) Vincent Ranasinghe, the last surviving member of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery (CGA) who served on the island</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/the-cocos-islands-mutiny/3480870">Cocos Islands Mutiny, transcript of Robyn Williams' radio broadcast, 20 May 2001</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Corps">Kalmykian Cavalry Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Auxiliary_Police" title="Latvian Auxiliary Police">Latvian Auxiliary Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Committee_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Committee of Azerbaijan">National Committee of Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Army" title="National Republican Army">National Republican Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_in_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands">National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Armed_Forces" title="Romanian Armed Forces">Romanian Armed Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Hungarian_Army" title="Royal Hungarian Army">Royal Hungarian Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Iraqi_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Iraqi Army">Royal Iraqi Army</a></li> <li>Russian collaborators <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army" title="Russian 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Army">Burma Independence Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xinjiang_Wars" title="Xinjiang Wars">Central Asian collaborators</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Turkestan_independence_movement" title="East Turkestan independence movement">East Turkestan independence movement</a></li></ul></li> <li>Chin Defense Army</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collaborationist_Chinese_Army" title="Collaborationist Chinese Army">Collaborationist Chinese Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defenders_of_the_Homeland" title="Defenders of the Homeland">Defenders of the Homeland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gakutotai" title="Gakutotai">Gakutotai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gando_Special_Force" title="Gando Special Force">Gando Special Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Square_(Iraq)" title="Golden Square (Iraq)">Golden Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heiho" title="Heiho">Heiho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Army" title="Indian National Army">Indian National Army</a> <ul><li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Velakkara_revolt" title="Velakkara revolt">Velakkara revolt</a> (1084)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=First_Polonnaruwa_War_of_Succession&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="First Polonnaruwa War of Succession (page does not exist)">First Polonnaruwa War of Succession</a> (1110-1153)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Sugala_rebellion" title="Queen Sugala rebellion">Queen Sugala rebellion</a> (1157–1158)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhuna_Rebellion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ruhuna Rebellion (page does not exist)">Ruhuna Rebellion</a> (1160)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajarata_Rebellion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rajarata Rebellion (page does not exist)">Rajarata Rebellion</a> (1168)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Second_Polonnaruwa_War_of_Succession&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Second Polonnaruwa War of Succession (page does not 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