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From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[Among casualties at the Somme] was Victor Carlson, 'a big Dane, over 6ft, fair, big moustache' (his real name was Frans Viktor Vesala, a seaman from the Finnish village of Koylio); he had survived being wounded at Gallipoli but after the battle of Flers was missing in action. His comrades later testified: 'In the advance at Flers [we] carried him into our trench badly wounded in the thigh by shell. He had lain out in the open all day and when we were out looking for ammunition at night, we heard him calling, and so we found him.' Stretcher-bearers could only reach the trench by the night, by which time the trench had been captured by the enemy and so his body was never recovered.