James Cruikshank
James Cruikshank (c1881-1936)
1936 Obituary.[1]
James Cruickshank, Member, was educated at Richmond Grammar School, and commenced his engineering training with Messrs. Thomas Peach Brothers, and afterwards joined the Great Western Railway at Hammersmith.
In 1907, he joined the Corporation of Western Oasis Railway Co., Egypt, and was appointed a locomotive foreman in 1908. From 1919 to 1921 he was Assistant General Superintendent, Auxiliary Railways, and from 1921 on, was Assistant District Locomotive Superintendent, Lower Egypt, and Divisional Locomotive Superintendent, Lower Egypt, in sole charge of the locomotive department of the Egyptian State Railways with the exception of Cairo and Alexandria. He was elected Associate Member in 1929, and a full Member in 1933.
He died in Egypt in February, 1936, at the age of 55.