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===Post war=== In 1947 the CDF was again mobilised in its last major internal security operation to suppress a left wing [[hartal]], or mass stoppage of work. The Ceylon Defence Force was given additional support by an armed detachment of British [[Royal Marines]] from [[HMS Glasgow (C21)|HMS ''Glasgow'']], who were utilised to deter strikers in [[Colombo]]. The Ceylon Defence Force was officially disbanded on 11 April 1949 and reconstituted by ''Army Act No. 17 of 1949'' which revoked the ''Ceylon Defence Force Ordinance of 1910'' as the [[Ceylon Volunteer Force (CVF)]], itself becoming the [[Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force]] (SLAVF) in 1972.
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