BORN HULL 1896. SON OF ALFRED WOYEN (1862-1919) & MARY WOYEN. A DOCK LABOURER & MARY WOYEN. THIS WAS HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 20. HIS ELDER BROTHER, ALFRED WOYEN WAS A DRILL INSTRUCTOR, IN THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS, WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 30/03/1916, AGED 32.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHRISTIAN REUBEN WOYEN 12/724. Born in July 1896, Christian was the son of Alfred and Mary Woyen of 18 Paradise Place, Commercial Road, Hull. A Labourer by trade he enlisted at City Hall on 29th September 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. As one of the Originals he served first in Egypt defending Suez before shipping for Marseilles on 29th February 1916 and taking the train north to the trenches of the Western Front. Christian was killed in action on 25th September 1916 and buried in St Vaast Post Military Cemetery; he was 20 years old.
Woyen, Christian Reuben
First name:
CHRISTIAN REUBEN
Military Number:
12/724
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/09/1916
Place died:
St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
20
18 PARADISE PLACE, COMMERCIAL ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
