The Sri Lankan Armed Forces award medals and their associated ribbon bars in recognition of various levels of service, personal accomplishments and commemorative events while a regular- or volunteer serviceperson is a member of the Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and the Sri Lanka Air Force. Together with military badges, such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a serviceperson's career.

Medals for gallantry

Sri Lanka orders

Wound medals

Medals for long service and good conduct

War service medals

Peacetime service medals

Commemorative medals

United Nations Service Medals

The United Nations Medal for participation in UN peacekeeping operations:

Former decorations and medals

Dominion of Ceylon (1949 - 1972)

From its formation in 1949, the Ceylon Armed Forces continued the use of British military decorations. This was discontinued in 1956 with a suspension of nominations for British honours; until Sri Lanka's republican constitution of 1972, the following awards were used:

Colonial (pre-1948)

Imperial and local medals awarded for military service to the colony and empire.

Order of precedence

The various decorations and medals are worn in the order stipulated for each service by its service commander.

Sri Lanka Army

The order in which decorations and medals are to be worn have been defined in the Dress Regulation of the Sri Lanka Army.

Sri Lanka Navy

Sri Lanka Air Force