Gratien Fernando
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Gratien Fernando
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Wathumullage Gratien Hubert Fernando CGA was the leader of the Cocos Islands Mutiny, an agitator for the independence of Sri Lanka from the British. Fernando was born to Sinhalese Buddhist parents. His father was a superintendent at the Ceylon Telegraph Office. He went to school at St Thomas' College, Mt Lavinia. He was later converted to Roman Catholicism. He was impressed by the program of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and by the anti-imperialist literature which it circulated but did not join t
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Ceylonese mutineer
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2024-02-28T18:03:03Z
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