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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 186

A trench patrol casualty's pair awarded to Private C. E. Poyser, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, who was wounded in action on 17 January 1952

Korea 1950-53 (22358969 Pte. C. E. Poyser. K.S.L.I.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, glue residue, to obverse otherwise very fine (2)

Charles Edward Prosser was a Yorkshireman born in Sheffield in 1932. His father Harry (a 'Brass Moulder') and his mother, Mary, lived at 49 Works Valley Road. On 17 January 1952 the 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry took over a front line position from the Canadians of 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. At this time the Chinese were digging trenches closer and closer to the battalion's positions, very similar to the tactics of the Great War.

The result was a series of savage patrol encounters and ambushes: Lieutenant Whybrow was wounded leading one patrol and Lieutenant St. Clair Morford, leading a patrol from 'D' Company, disappeared: his body was never recovered and he has no known grave. In one on these encounters Charles Prosser was wounded by shrapnel splinters entering his stomach.

On his return to the U.K. and being 'Demobbed', Charles married Eileen Cottingham in St. Paul's Church, Sheffield, on 27 March 1954 and had two children, Susan and Sally. He died of cancer in Sheffield on 28 November 2016 aged 84; sold together with a copied casualty roll.

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£130