Soldiers Died in the Great War reports that he was born in Sunderland and enlisted in Manchester; that he was an Acting Lance Corporal with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and died at sea.
Acknowledgments: Barney Rice
John William Lundy is remembered in North Shields on N34.02, N34.40, and N34.48 page 29 and in Tynemouth on T36.14 page 17