Stout, Christian Frederick

BORN LIVERPOOL 1892. SON OF WILLIAM & EMMA STOUT, 1901 CENSUS. HULL PAL. HUSBAND OF MARGARET JANE LEWIS, OF 17, JAMES STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
Hull Pals Memorial Post. Corporal, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK JOHN STOUT 11/248. Born in Liverpool in 1892, Christian was the fourth of five children to William and Ellen Stout of 3 Paradise Place, Commercial Street, Hull. A Letter Press Printer before the war, he was among the first to enlist when City Hall opened its doors on the morning of Monday 7th September 1914 to begin filling the ranks of the 2nd Hull Pals battalion, the 11th East Yorkshire’s; ‘The Tradesmen’. Originally joining as a Private, Christian was promoted to Corporal and was a veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood surviving them all without a scratch. His luck ran out at Fresnoy when he received all those ‘scratches’ at once. During trench raids on 8th November he was wounded in the face, nose, chin, chest and leg and evacuated to 8th General Hospital at Rouen where he lived for another three weeks. Three weeks in agonies we cannot begin to imagine. Christian Frederick John Stout died of wounds at 11.30 on 1st December 1917 and is buried at Boisgullaume Communal Cemetery Extension; he was 25 years old.