About: Bertram Weerasinghe

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: Bertram Weerasinghe Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FBertram_Weerasinghe

Bertram Edmund Weerasinghe, OBE (1904–1971) was a Ceylonese engineer and firefighter. He was the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo. After studying engineering at the Staffordshire University, Weerasinghe returned to Ceylon and took on an engineering post. Unhappy with the work he applied for and was selected in 1932 to become the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo Municipal Council. In October 1932, soon after the selection he was sent to Britain for training with the Sheffield Fire Brigade at the Central Fire Station in South Yorkshire under Superintendent Tom Breaks. On returning to Ceylon in 1933 he was appointed as Chief Fire Officer and served until 1946. During World War II he served as Assistant Civil Defense Commissioner and was awarded an OBE for his service

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	Thing foaf:Person person dul:NaturalPerson Eukaryote Person Human Animal animal eukaryote species schema:Person
rdfs:label	Bertram Weerasinghe (en)
rdfs:comment	Bertram Edmund Weerasinghe, OBE (1904–1971) was a Ceylonese engineer and firefighter. He was the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo. After studying engineering at the Staffordshire University, Weerasinghe returned to Ceylon and took on an engineering post. Unhappy with the work he applied for and was selected in 1932 to become the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo Municipal Council. In October 1932, soon after the selection he was sent to Britain for training with the Sheffield Fire Brigade at the Central Fire Station in South Yorkshire under Superintendent Tom Breaks. On returning to Ceylon in 1933 he was appointed as Chief Fire Officer and served until 1946. During World War II he served as Assistant Civil Defense Commissioner and was awarded an OBE for his service (en)
foaf:name	Bertram Weerasinghe (en)
name	Bertram Weerasinghe (en)
dcterms:subject	Sri Lankan firefighters 1904 births 1971 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People of British Ceylon Sinhalese engineers Alumni of Staffordshire University
Wikipage page ID	44949431 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1060064110 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Demographics of Sri Lanka Sri Lankan firefighters Assistant superintendent of police Colombo Colombo Municipal Council General Manager Staffordshire University BBC 1904 births 1971 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People of British Ceylon Sinhalese engineers Alumni of Staffordshire University Ceylon South Yorkshire OBE World War II
sameAs	Bertram Weerasinghe Bertram Weerasinghe Bertram Weerasinghe Bertram Weerasinghe
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Authority_control dbt:Citation_needed dbt:Infobox_person dbt:Portal dbt:Reflist
birth date	1904 (xsd:integer)
death date	1971 (xsd:integer)
known for	First Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo (en)
nationality	Ceylonese (en)
has abstract	Bertram Edmund Weerasinghe, OBE (1904–1971) was a Ceylonese engineer and firefighter. He was the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo. After studying engineering at the Staffordshire University, Weerasinghe returned to Ceylon and took on an engineering post. Unhappy with the work he applied for and was selected in 1932 to become the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo Municipal Council. In October 1932, soon after the selection he was sent to Britain for training with the Sheffield Fire Brigade at the Central Fire Station in South Yorkshire under Superintendent Tom Breaks. On returning to Ceylon in 1933 he was appointed as Chief Fire Officer and served until 1946. During World War II he served as Assistant Civil Defense Commissioner and was awarded an OBE for his service. After leaving the Colombo Fire Brigade he went serve as an Assistant superintendent of police (ASP) in the 1950s. In the 1960s he worked as an executive in the corporate sector, serving as the General Manager of Pure Beverages Ltd. In 1962, he appeared in the BBC television programme “This Is Your Life.” with his mentor Tom Breaks the former Chief Fire Officer of Sheffield. He was also the Golf Champion of Ceylon. (en)
gold:hypernym	Engineer
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Bertram_Weerasinghe?oldid=1060064110&ns=0
page length (characters) of wiki page	2169 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
state of origin	Ceylon
birth year	1904-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
death year	1971-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
nationality	Ceylon
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Bertram_Weerasinghe
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	1948 Birthday Honours Weerasinghe
is Wikipage disambiguates of	Weerasinghe
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Bertram_Weerasinghe

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 54 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software