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Private John Dennison Prosser (Service No:WX14890) initially enlisted with the ACMF (Private; Service No:W32854) and was attached to 3 Training Battalion before joining the AIF. Private Prosser served in Morotai and Kure with 10 Australian Ordnance Vehicle Park (previously 4th Ordnance Vehicle Park) and was Discharged on 8 January 1947. Sibling David also served in WWII and son John Jnr served in the RAN (Service No:R65905) from 1966.

Born in 1921 in Perth WA, John was the third of four children of Ewart Francis Prosser (b1897 in Cardiff, Wales) and Winifred Mary Dennison (b1897 in Yorkshire, England). Ewart was a Platelayer in Wales in 1915 when he enlisted in the British Army (Private; Regimental No:7/28548). He was a Labourer in London in 1918 when he and Winifred married. The couple immigrated in 1922 under the Group Settlement Scheme, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Osterley with their three children. They travelled by horse and dray to Cowaramup where they had land under Scheme 18 - settlers were expected to build their own shelters from materials available and be self sufficient. Within two years Ewart had relocated his family to Bassendean in Perth, where they settled and raised their family and was a Labourer and Foundry Worker at the Midland Railway Workshops. Ewart served with the ACMF in WWII (Private; Service No:W243428). Following Wiinifred's death in 1941, Ewart remarried.

In 1949 John was a Truck Driver in Perth when he married Dorothy Jean Newman (b1925 in Dalwallinu, WA) - Dorothy was a Machinist in Perth. John and Dorothy settled in Perth where they raised their family and John was a Truck Driver. In 1961 John was appointed Mail Officer/Clerk and he and Dorothy later moved to Kwinana nr Fremantle. John died in 1994 and Dorothy in 2004.