It is a famous footballing name but this is not the Ayr version, but another to feature on the Soccer Anzacs website and the first South Australian to play for his national eleven, in 1923 against a Chinese XI. But, of course, Australia was neither his native country not the one were he had learned the game. John Cameron had been born in 1891 in Motherwell, probably in the Windmillhill area, the centre of the town's football. He had arrived in Adelaide in 1911, would as a solid full-back first turn out for Port Adelaide in winning the league, then in 1913 for and captaining Cheltenham, league-winners in 1915, the year he would enlist. He was twenty-four working as a labourer. He would be posted to France, survive until mid-1918 unwounded but then be amongst the first to return home on the Armistice.

And once back he was back at his club leading it to a League/Cup double in 1920, the League again the next and in 1923 and the Cup once more in 1922. By then he was into his thirties, continuing to play until 1925, but apart from that there is little more then perhaps a death in 1961 still in the city.