NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Friday 16 October 1914

For the Front. Private Harry Youlton of "F" Company 3rd Battalion RMIJ leaves the Island on Monday next to join the Kings Royal Rifles at Winchester. This loyal young Jerseyman will be attached to the same Battalion as the other members of the RMIJ who have volunteered. Young Youlton was connected with the Great Union Road United Methodist Church and the 1st Jersey Troop Boy Scouts. He leaves the Island with the best of wishes from his many friends to which we add our own good wishes for a speedy and victorious return to his native Isle.

NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Thursday 16 September 1915

Wounded and Missing. We regret to state that official intimation has been received by Mrs Youlton that her son, Lance Corporal Harry Youlton of the 7th Battalion Kings Royal Rifles was wounded and has been missing since 30 August. This, it will be remembered, was the date of the great Battle of Hooge at which the Rifles took so gallant a part. Lance Corporal Youlton enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war and has written many cheerful letters from the fighting line, one of which appeared in these columns. We sincerely hope that news will shortly be ......

NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Wednesday 3 November 1915

Roll of Honour. We regret to state that Mrs Youlton of Garden Lane has received unofficial notification that the body of her son, Lance Corporal Harry Youlton of the Kings Royal Rifles who was reported wounded and missing on 29 July, had been found and was buried on 29 October. We beg to tender our sincere condolences to the mother and family in their bereavement.

NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Thursday 4 November 1915

Roll of Honour. On 29 July, during the heavy fighting in Flanders, Lance Corporal Harry Youlton of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, who had enlisted only a few months before from the Town Battalion, was reported wounded and missing. His friends and family have been hoping ever since that favourable news would be received but as time went by and nothing was heard they began to fear the worst. All doubts have now unfortunately been set at rest by the receipt of the following letter by which it will be seen that the gallant NCOs body was found and buried 3 months after his death. The many friends of Harry Youlton, who was of a bright and jovial disposition, will regret to hear the sad news but the family's grief we feel sure is tempered by the fact that he died a true soldiers death. The letter reads "Dear Madam, Allow me to express my deepest sympathy to you on your son's death. His body I found along with some more of his comrades who all fell nobly defending their Country's honour. Hoping not to reopen old wounds as you have not heard from him for so long a period, but to set your mind at ease to know that I buried him decently as a soldier and one of my comrades. I remain yours respectfully, WILLIAM ARCHER (Private 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment B Company) PS: I enclose his pay book as I see that your name is entered in his Will, found on 29 October 1915."

NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Monday 12 June 1916

Now Reported Killed. Mrs Youlton, mother of Lance Corporal Youlton of the 7th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps who was reported missing on 30 July 1915, has now received official news that her son was killed on the above date. It will be remembered that some months ago Mrs Youlton received a private letter from a soldier who had buried her son's body. Another son, Private George Youlton, has just joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment.