Name
Robert Victor Youens
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
42077
Royal Army Medical Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Robert Youens was born in the summer of 1873. He was one of five children (three sons and two daughters) born to Robert (senior) and Ellen Youens. In the 1871 Census the family was recorded living at 14 Oxford Road, Frogmoor, High Wycombe. Robert (senior) worked as a Basket Maker. The family continued to live at the same address until the 1891 Census. At that point the Head of the Household was listed as Ellen Youens, and the family had moved to 37 St Mary Yard, Wycombe. By now Robert (junior) was working and was employed as a Chair Maker and Bench Mender.
Robert married Rose Shepherd in the spring of 1907, and a son was born in 1909 at Abbots Langley. At the time of the 1911 Census the family lived at 12 Tanners Hill, Asylum Cottages, Abbots Langley. Robert was employed by the Metropolitan Asylum Board at the Leavesden Asylum where he worked as an Attendant on the Insane.
Robert was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in October 1914. Whilst employed as an Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum he had volunteered for Kitchener’s Army at the age of 41. The Parish Magazine noted a second son was born to Robert and Rose in April 1915 and in July 1915 recorded that he was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in July 1915. However by this time he had already been sent to France. Robert’s Medal Roll indicated that he arrived in France on 12th May 1915, serving with the RAMC.
The Parish Magazine listed Robert serving with the RAMC through to the end of the War. He was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Abbots Langley for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919. On both occasions he was shown serving with the RAMC at No 8 General Hospital and gave his address at 12 Tanners Hill, Abbots Langley.
Robert Youens survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
