John Ingram was born in Aberchirder, Scotland, in 1887. He was in Adelaide by 1909, playing five full seasons for the Cambridge/Tandanya club. Cambridge won the league and cup double in 1910 and changed their name to Tandanya in 1912. Ingram played for the South Australian state team against Broken Hill in 1912.
Evidently with some military experience he served on the instructional staff in Australia before formally enlisting with the substantive rank of sergeant on 16th February 1917. He was a carpenter by trade and was married with two daughters. The Ingrams lived at Wayville, close to the soccer grounds in the South Parklands.
Ingram headed overseas with the 14th reinforcements for the 32nd Battalion. Time was spent at training camps in Egypt, Italy and England, and Ingram did not arrive on the Western Front until April 1918. He was wounded in June, and then died of wounds near Amiens on 24th June 1918.