Service Details
Name:
 CARSTENS
Given Name:
 ARTHUR KENNETH
Initials:
 A K
Service No:
 10411
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Age:
 29
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Annie Carstens, of Port Nolloth, South Africa. Husband of Ellen Mary Carstens, of the "Gables" Butteswell Road, Lutterworth, Leicester, England. Remembered on Wynberg Boys' High School War Memorial gates
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 30.

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