Alastair Cram

Major Alastair Lorimer Cram MC (25 August 1909 – 17 March 1994) was a Scottish mountaineer, lawyer and British Army officer during the Second World War.

He was an outstanding athlete, founding the Perth chapter of the Junior Mountaineering Club in 1930 and winning the Scottish A.A.A.

After an apprenticeship with Balfour and Manson in Edinburgh, he joined his father's firm, Mitchell & Cram, in Perth.

He subsequently made 21 escape attempts, finally succeeding in April 1945, just one month before the end of the war in Europe.

He was stationed in Germany on intelligence duties in November 1946, serving with the War Crimes Commission.