Education
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.
He was twenty four years old, and a temporary second lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 7 July 1917 near Hill 60, Belgium, it was reported that the enemy were preparing to raid the British trenches and Second Lieutenant Youens, who had already been wounded, immediately set out to rally a Lewis gun team which had become disorganised. While doing this an enemy bomb fell on the Lewis gun position without exploding. The second lieutenant picked it up and hurled it over the parapet, but soon after another bomb fell near the same place and again he picked it up, but it exploded in his hand, severely wounding him and some of his mentor
The officer later succumbed to his wounds.
Buried at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, Belgium, 2 miles (3 kilometres) south east of Ypres. Plot I. Row O. Grave three.
Notable alumnus of the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.