{{Short description|Scottish boxer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Hugh Cameron | image = | image_size = | caption = | nationality = British (Scottish) | birth_date = C.1918 | birth_place = Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Boxing | event = Flyweight | club = Port Glasgow AAC | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Boxing}} {{MedalCountry | {{SCO}} }} {{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1938 Sydney|flyweight}} }}
'''Hugh MacDonald Cameron''' (c.1918)<ref name=Anc>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ |title=UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, Brisbane to London Arrival - 1 Apr 1938 |website=Ancestry |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref> was a boxer who competed for Scotland and won a bronze medal at the British Empire Games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teamscotland.scot/athlete/hugh-cameron/ |title=Hugh Cameron |website=Team Scotland |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref>
== Biography == Cameron was best known for representing the Scottish team, where he won the bronze medal in the flyweight division<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/boxing.htm |title=Commonwealth Games Medallists - Boxing |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3031 |title=Medal Standings Sydney 1938|website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=28 August 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329114303/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3031|archive-date=2019-03-29}}</ref> at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia, losing to eventual silver medallist Joe Gagnon in the semi-final.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19380208/153/0015 |title=Another Day of Records at Empire Games |work=The Scotsman |date=8 February 1938 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref>
He boxed out of the Port Glasgow AAC.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19360219/470/0017 |title=Amateur Boxing |work=Edinburgh Evening News |date=19 February 1936 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=25 August 2025}}</ref>
At the time of the 1938 Games, he was an apprentice driller and living at 18 Port Glasgow Road, Greenock.<ref name=Anc/>
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