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PROSSER, Raymond Edmund James
Personal Details
| Service Number: | VX34319 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 26 January 1918 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 23 August 1979, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 25 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX34319, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Jul 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX34319, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Raymond was one of three known children born to Alfred and Mary PROSSER. His father also enlisted, giving his year of birth as 1903; he was actually born in 1890.
Raymond was captured at Ruin Ridge, El Alamein, when his battalion was surrounded by enemy tanks. He was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Raymond was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He died in Victoria in 1979, aged 61.