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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 97

Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal 1914-19 (A. C. Houlder.), very fine

Alfred Claude Houlder was born in 1887 and was a native of Croydon and went as a Missionary to Ceylon in 1908, having passed out of Oxford. Serving at Trinity College, Kandy, he would become the First Principal of Christian College, Kotte in 1935. A notable figure in the Church Missionary Society, he was active at the Peradeniya Teacher Training Colony. He died at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey on 24 December 1963 and is buried at St Mary the Virgin, Merton.

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Estimate
£80 to £120

Starting price
£60