PROSSER, Ewart Francis
| Service Number: | W243428 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
| Born: | Cardiff, Wales, 7 November 1897 |
| Home Town: | Bassendean, Bassendean, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 16 March 1969, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W243428, 5 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
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| 3 Nov 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W243428, 5 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ewart Francis Prosser (Service No:W243428) served with the ACMF from 31 May 1940 to 3 November 1941. Private Prosser served with 10 and 19 Garrison Battalions and was attached to 5 Garrison Battalion at Discharge. Private Prosser served in England in WWI - Private; Regimental No:7/28548 - with the Royal Innickilling Fusiliers 3rd Welsh in France from 15 October 1915 to 26 January 1917 (no longer fit for military service).
Born in 1897 in Cardiff Wales, Ewart was the eighth of twelve children of John Lewis Prosser (b1855 in Cardiff, Wales) and Hannah Sowden Angove (b1862 in Cardiff, Wales). John (a Coal Miner) and Hannah married in 1878 in Cardiff where they settled and raised their family and John worked as a Coal Miner and Dock Labourer.
Ewart worked as a Platelayer in Cardiff before enlisting in the Army and was in London in 1918 when he married Winifred Mary Dennison (b1897 in Yorkshire, England). Ewart (a Labourer) and Winifred immigrated in 1922 as fully paid passengers under the Group Settlement Scheme 18, arriving in Fremantle WA with their three children on board the Osterley. From Fremantle, the family travelled by horse and dray to Cowaramup in south west WA. Settlers were expected to build their own humpies with whatever materials were to hand and to be self sufficient, and after two years Ewart and his family moved to Bassendean in Perth WA. Ewart worked as a Labourer and Foundry Worker at the Midland Railway Workshops. Winifred died in 1941, and Ewart remarried in 1946 to Daisy Mileham (nee Lush; b1897 in Hampshire, England) - Daisy had immigrated with her first husband in 1924, arriving in Fremantle on board the Beltana and settling in Bassendean, Perth, WA. Daisy died in 1965 and Ewart in 1969.