PROSSER, Charles Robert
| Service Number: | 761 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Kilmore, Victoria, Australia , 1871 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 January 1947, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria Section TT; Grave No:1268 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Sergeant, 761, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles | |
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| 15 Feb 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boxer Rebellion Contingent, 761, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, embarked Melbourne and soon after landing were taken to the Transvaal | |
| 3 Apr 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, 761, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, embarked at Durban for Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Farrier Sergeant Charles Robert Prosser (Service No:761) served with the 5th Victorian Mounted Rilfes in the Boer War from February 1901 to May 1902. He embarked with his Unit on 15 February 1901 from Melbourne, and fought at Rhenoster Kop, the south-east of the Transvaal and along the Zulu-land Border. Sergeant Prosser embarked from Durban for Melbourne on 3 April 1902, and was attached to 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles at Discharge in May 1902.
Charles was born in Kilmore, Victoria in 1871, third of thirteen children of Charles Robert Prosser Snr (b1847 in Hackney, England) and Janet (Jessie) Easdale (b1849 in Ayrshire, Scotland). Charles Snr immigrated in 1853, arriving in Melbourne with his parents and siblings on board the Caroline Chisholm, and Jessie immigrated in 1854, arriving in Melbourne with her parents and siblings on board the Boomerang. Charles Snr and Jesssie married in 1868 in Kilmore, where they settled and Charles Snr was a Blacksmith. The family moved to Melbourne in the mid 1880s, and Charles Snr worked as a Blacksmith.
Charles was working as a Blacksmith in Melbourne when he enlisted to serve in the Boer War, and was in Eaglehawk in Bendigo in 1903 when he married Selina Cordelia Dennis (b1877 in Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria). Charles and Selina settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Charles worked as a Blacksmith, then with the Municipal Council as a Motor Mechanic/Driver and Foreman. Charles died in 1947 and Selina died in 1953.
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