John Bayne (footballer)

John Bayne (23 November 1877 – 21 July 1915) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Southern League for Reading and Brentford as a centre forward.

[2] He enlisted in the British Army on 17 February 1896 and served as a private in the Black Watch during the Second Boer War.

[2][5] Between the end of his service and the outbreak of the First World War, Bayne worked in a mill in Dunblane.

[2] He was recalled to the Black Watch after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and was killed by a rifle grenade at Richebourg-Saint-Vaast on the Western Front on 21 July 1915.

[3] This biographical article related to association football in Scotland, about a forward born in the 1870s, is a stub.