James Bryce Bennett (28 May 1891 â 24 October 1955) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as an outside forward in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.
Bennett's older brother Alec was also a footballer who won League championships with both Celtic and Rangers, and was a Scottish international. Their father Robert was a master draper and amateur poet of some local esteem whose portrait is on display in a Hamilton museum.
In November 1914, three months after Britain's entry into the First World War, Bennett enlisted in the Highland Light Infantry. On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, younger brother Robert (a private in the same regiment) was killed. Two weeks later on 15 July, while holding the rank of sergeant, James Bennett received a gunshot wound to the back, but survived. He later worked as a textile manufacturer and died of stomach cancer in 1955, age 64.