Honours
His Orders, Decorations and Medals and other memorabilia are on display at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.
- Appointments
- Member of the Privy Council (1954)
- Knight of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) (1948)
- Order of the Companions of Honour (1956)
- Medals
- King George V Silver Jubilee Medal (1935)
- King George VI Coronation Medal (1937)
- Defence Medal (1946)
- War Medal 1939–1945 (1946)
- Efficiency Medal (Ceylon) (1949)
- Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953)
- Ceylon Armed Services Long Service Medal (1956)
- Ceylon Armed Services Inauguration Medal (1968)
- Republic of Sri Lanka Armed Services Medal (1972)
- Sri Lanka Army 25th Anniversary Medal (1974)
- Foreign honours
- Légion d´honneur (1954)
- Order of Merit (1954)
- Order of Merit (1955)
- Order of the White Elephant (1956)
- Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Order of the Rising Sun, 1st Class (1954)
- Knights of Justice of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (1965)
- Educational
- LLD (honorary) - University of Ceylon
- Honorary military appointments
- Honorary General of the Sri Lanka Army (1980)
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)