John Sinclair Leckie was a Scottish amateur footballer who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park as a

centre forward Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...

Personal life

Leckie worked as a commercial traveller. In December 1916, over two years since the beginning of the First World War, Leckie enlisted in the

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland. Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...

and rose to the rank of

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1888 births Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players British Army personnel of World War I Footballers from Glasgow Men's association football forwards Queen's Park F.C. players Date of death missing Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders soldiers People from Maryhill {{Scotland-footy-forward-1880s-stub