Cocos Islands mutiny

Cocos Islands mutiny
	Part of World War II
	; Map of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Date	8 May 1942
Location	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Result	British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom British Ceylon;	Ceylonese mutineers
Commanders and leaders
Captain Gardiner	Gratien Fernando
Strength
26 men; Six-inch (152 mm) guns	15 men; 1 Bren light machine gun; Six-inch (152 mm) and nine-inch (227 mm) guns
Casualties and losses
1 killed; 1 wounded	3 executed; 8 imprisoned

The Cocos Islands mutiny was a failed mutiny by Sri Lankan soldiers against British officers, on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 8 May 1942, during the Second World War.

The mutineers attempted to seize control of the islands and disable the British garrison. However, the mutiny was defeated, the mutineers punished, and the three ringleaders executed; the only British Commonwealth servicemen to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.

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