In Memory Of
CARSTENS, ARTHUR KENNETH
Service Details
Age:
29
Date of Birth:
1888-10-30
Service No:
10411
Rank:
Private
Unit:
1st Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. A. 30.
Cemetery:
BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of William and Annie Jane Hughes Carstens, of Port Nolloth, South Africa. Husband of Ellen Mary Carstens, of the "Gables" Butteswell Road, Lutterworth, Leicester, England. A clerk. Remembered on Wynberg Boys' High School War Memorial gates
