PROSSER, Arthur
| Other Name: | Presser, Arthur - AWM - WWI Embarkation Roll |
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| Service Number: | 6365 |
| Enlisted: | 29 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1886 |
| Home Town: | North Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, 27 April 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia 42*309*N |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6365, 2nd Field Company Engineers | |
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| 20 Mar 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 6365, 2nd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 6365, 2nd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Armadale, Sydney | |
| 21 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 6365, 2nd Field Company Engineers, embarked England for Fremantle on board HT Marmari | |
| 4 Feb 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 6365, 2nd Field Company Engineers, embarked Fremantle for Melbourne on board HMT Morvada | |
| 18 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 6365, 2nd Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Elder of the two brothers (Arthur and Alfred) who served in WWII (older brother Charles served in the Boer War), Sapper Arthur Prosser (Service No:6365) enlisted in the AIF on 20 November 1915, and was attached to 2nd Field Coy Engineers on 20 March 1916 when he embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A26 Armadale. Sapper Prosser served on the Western front, and in a letter to his wife Elsie on 9 September 1916, wrote 'Well I suppose you have heard that I have been admitted to hospital here with my knees and hips. I don't think they will get me back in France .... I was in the trenches for two months, it was cold and wet, and on the 1st of July the big push started, I was digging a sap through to a German gun when a German shell buried me. I got out and I got rheumatism. I have been in hospital since the 16th of July and am still in bed' (extract; NAA). Sapper Prosser embarked from England on 21 December 1918 on board HT Marmari, and during a stop over in Fremantle, failed to re board. Sapper Prosser then embarked on 4 February 1919 from Fremantle for Melbourne, and was attached to 2nd Field Coy Engineers at Discharge on 18 July 1919.
Arthur was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1886, tenth of thirteen children of Charles Robert Prosser (b1847 in Hackney, England) and Janet (Jessie) Easdale (b1849 in Ayrshire, Scotland). Charles immigrated in 1853, arriving in Melbourne with his parents and siblings on board the Caroline Chisholm, and Jessie arrived in Melbourne with her parents and siblings in 1854 on board the Boomerang. Charles (a Blacksmith) and Jessie married in 1868 in Kilmore, and lived there and in Rushworth and Mooroopna before settling in Melbourne in the mid 1880s - Charles worked as a Blacksmith.
Arthur worked as a Blacksmith in Melbourne, and in 1907 married Elsie Susanna Tormay (b1888 in Melbourne, Victoria). Arthur and Elsie settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Arthur worked as a Blacksmith. In the mid 1920s the couple separated, and both remained in Melbourne, where Arthur worked as a Blacksmith. Arthur died in 1959 and Elsie died in 1966.