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
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