Cranston

James Bird Cranston was born in 1914 in Haddington, close to Edinburgh. The son of James Buchan Cranston and Anne Crookston Bird.

He married Helen Baptie Halliday in 1936 in Bolton.

Lt. Cranston is mentioned several times in the KOSB Official War Diary for his ability to bring back enemy intelligence from his numerous patrols. These deeds were also reported in newspapers at that time.