A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War

Four: Private A. M. Prosser, Worcestershire Regiment, taken Prisoner of War at Tobruk, 21 June 1942

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya (5251409 Pte. A. Prosser. Worc. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, nearly extremely fine (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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Alan Morris Prosser attested for the Worcestershire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion in Palestine prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. From early 1940 until mid 1941 the Battalion was in action against the Italians in Eritrea and Abyssinia, before moving to the Western Desert, where it was part of the garrison of Tobruk captured on 21 June 1942.
Prosser was taken to the Italian Campo 54 at Passo Corese, in Sabina, north of Rome, before being transferred to Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf, Poland, in November 1943. The camp was evacuated in January 1945 and the prisoners were force marched through Poland and Germany in appalling winter weather. Prosser states on his M.I.9 P.O.W. questionnaire that he ‘made successful escape when the Germans marched me 434 kilometres and was re-captured by the American 3rd Army.’
After the War Prosser stayed in the Worcestershire Regiment and saw further service in Malaya.