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Captain SVEND ALBERT CARSTENSEN

Service Number: 278062
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1945

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

8. C. 2.

Iraq

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 710 Mechanical Excavating Sec., Indian Engineers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Ivan Carstensen and of Esther Carstensen (nee Hansen). B.Sc.(Copenhagen), Civil Engineer (Denmark).
  • Personal Inscription MINDES MED TAKNEMLIGHED OG KAERLIGHED
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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