Image:Private John Lynn VC drawing.jpg

Drawing of the action for which Private John Lynn, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, was awarded the Victoria Cross on 2 May 1915.

Drawing from The War Illustrated, 24 July 1915. Caption reads:

A HERO OF HEROES.—Conspicuous among the individual soldiers whose gallant qualities have singled them out for special mention in Sir John French's despatch, was Private Lynn, of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers. His exploit was rather greater than saving the guns, or like heroism. A poison-gas cloud loomed up from the German lines, and Private Lynn, without waiting to adjust his respirator, rushed to his machine-gun, and was able single-handed to check the German advance in time. Exhausted by the foul fumes the gallant private was carried to his dug-out, but hearing that another attack was imminent he endeavoured to reach his gun again. Twenty-four hours later Private Lynn died, in great agony—a posthumous V.C.

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