Colonel John Edward Blackburn (30 April 1851 – 29 September 1927) was a Scottish footballer and soldier. In 1869, he entered the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

and was commissioned in the

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...

in 1871. He played for the Royal Engineers A.F.C. and Scotland. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the

1917 New Year Honours The 1917 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were published in several editions of ''The London Gazette'' in Ja ...

for services during the First World War.

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1851 births 1927 deaths Men's association football wingers Companions of the Order of the Bath Footballers from Edinburgh Royal Engineers A.F.C. players Royal Engineers officers Scotland men's international footballers Scottish men's footballers 19th-century British Army personnel Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-1850s-stub