1863–1935

Introduction

Born: March 5, 1863, Rom­ford, Essex, Eng­land.

Died: March 21, 1935, Ed­mon­ton, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

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Biography

Coller grew up in Wood­ford, and joined the Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) at Re­gent Hall in 1885.

He was a mem­ber of the SA House­hold Troops Band on its first cam­paign in 1887, and lat­er played the trom­bone in the SA In­ter­na­tion­al Staff Band.

In 1895, he be­gan work­ing in va­ri­ous SA trade de­pots, then in the Trade De­part­ment (lat­er Sal­va­tionist Pub­lish­ing and Sup­plies) in Lon­don.

His last ap­point­ment was in charge of the mu­sic pub­li­ca­tions de­part­ment, and he re­tired as an SA ma­jor in 1928.

In 1880 he won a co­py of He­ber’s Po­ems as a prize for a tem­per­ance acros­tic. From 1895, he con­trib­ut­ed more than 200 songs to The Mu­sic­al Sal­va­tion­ist.

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