David McLaren Bain

Capt. David McLaren Bain (10 September 1891 – 3 June 1915) was a rugby union player.

Bain was born in Edinburgh, to William Bain and Edith Frederika McLaren Bain. He played for Oxford University RFC and was capped for in 1911–14. Bain captained Scotland against in 1914.

He was killed in France in World War I, while serving with the Gordon Highlanders.

See also

• List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War

References

• Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 )

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves database
• An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)