Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of William Young, an agricultural labourer, born 1860 in Bourton, Dorset and his wife Emma Young (nee Lampard, married in the 2nd quarter of 1878 in the Mere, Wiltshire district), born 1857 in Bourton, Dorset. Henry John was born in 1878 in Silton, Bourton, Dorset, in April 1881 the family home was at Shepton Montague, Wincanton, Somerset. In April 1891 Henry was a schoolboy and was residing in the family home at Bourton, Mere, Wiltshire together with his father a general labourer, his mother and siblings, Rosa Louisa, a schoolgirl, born 1882 and William, a schoolboy, born 1886, the latter two siblings were both born in Shepton Montague, and Frederick George, born 1888 in Bourton, Wiltshire. In March 1901 Henry was absent from the family home at Beney Cottages, 1, Sedghill, Mere, Wiltshire, residing there was his widowed mother and siblings, Rosa, William an agricultural labourer and Frederick.
On Saturday February 20th 1915 The Leicester Chronicle and Leicestershire Mercury published the following article under the heading. “HINCKLEY MEN’S DEATHS.” – Official intimation has been received in Hinckley of the death of Private Gordon Jennings, of the 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards, which took place at the Anglo American Hospital, at Wimereux, on February 10th, from wounds received in action at La Bassee the previous day. Jennings was 20 years of age, and enlisted last September. He was well known in the locality. Private John Young, of the Somersetshire Light Infantry, has also been killed in action. He was 37 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children.