Wickelia Oswald Christopher Dissanayaka Tillekeratne (???? – 13 April 1923) was a

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

ese politician. He was elected member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon representing the

Sinhalese Sinhala may refer to: * Something of or related to the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka * Sinhalese people * Sinhala language Sinhala ( ; , ''siṁhala'', ), sometimes called Sinhalese (), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language prima ...

in the 1917 legislative council election and was re-elected as the representative for the Southern Province in the 1921 legislative council election. He died on 13 April 1923 in a fatal train accident at the Wellawatte train station while in-office. He was succeeded by his kinsmen C. W. W. Kannangara in the by-election that followed for the vacant seat.D.R. rises to the occasion
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