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Gunasena de Soyza

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as a cadet. He thereafter served as an Office Assistant to the Government Agent in Hambanthota, Jaffna and Kegalle. We thereafter served as Landing Surveyor, Customs. He thereafter served as Assistant Government Agent in Badulla and Mullattivu before he returned to Colombo as Deputy Registrar of
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to the Ministry of Food and Co-operative Undertakings and served till 1949. He thereafter served as the acting Ministry of Industries, Ministry of Posts, before taking over as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Local Government. In 1953, he was seconded to Secretary, Cabinet Planning
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in December 1957 and served till October 1958. He was reappointed in February 1960 and was serving until his death on 12 October 1961. He was appointed an
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one of the leading Buddhist schools in Sri Lanka for his primary and secondary education and later gained admission to the
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Co-operative Society. In 1944, he was appointed Commissioner of Cooperative Department. In 1948, he was appointed
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Committee and Chief Planning Commission. In October 1953, he was appointed Permanent Secretary to the
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in 1926 by the Secretary of State. On his returned to Ceylon he was attached to the
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in recognition of his work for the cooperative movement, and he was appointed a
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Ceylonese Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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High commissioners of Sri Lanka to the United Kingdom
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Ceylonese Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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Colombo
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London
United Kingdom
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan
Ananda College
Colombo
University College, Colombo
Jesus College, Oxford
CMG
OBE
CMG
OBE
Sri Lankan
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of External Affairs and Defence
Ceylon's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Ananda College
Colombo
Ceylon University College
Bachelor of Arts
University of London
classics
Jesus College, Oxford
Ceylon Civil Service
Matara
Kachcheri

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