John ‘Jack’ Lynn arrived in Perth from Liverpool, England at the end of 1910. He initially settled in Kalgoorie where he played for the Mines team and represented a Goldfields combination when they visited Perth in 1913. Lynn moved to Perth and played for Rangers United from 1914 until his enlistment at the end of the 1915 season.
Sapper Lynn joined the 4th Field Company Engineers and served on the Western Front. In a chatty letter by him mentioned in The West Australian on 15 August 1916 he remarked “that they are having a hot time, and adds, that they are becoming used to it.” And that he desired “to be remembered to the few soccerites left in Western Australia.” Around the time he wrote that letter he received a gun shot wound to the left shoulder.
On 30 October 1917 he was killed in action in a field in Belgium.