Service Details
Name:
 CARSTENS
Given Name:
 JOHANNES ARNOLDUS
Initials:
 J A
Rank:
 Apprentice
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 M.V. Scottish Prince (London)
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Date of Death:
 1941-05-31
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Date of Birth:
 1920-06-29
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died of asphyxiation, from an escape of gas while working in the hold, as the vessel had been badly damaged in the excavation from Greece.
Additional
Information:
Son of Martin Johannes Michiel Carstens and Elizabeth Maria, (nee Cilliers); educated Moorreesburg High School; General Botha Cadet Draft 1937-38. In 1939 Johannes Arnoldus Carstens joined the Prince Line.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) BRITISH PROTESTANT CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 986.

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