Lieutenant-General Sir James Parlane Baird, KBE CStJ (12 May 1915 – 26 May 2007) was a British Army officer and doctor.
His father, the Rev David Baird, was a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland.
[3] He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on 12 December 1939 with the rank of lieutenant,[5] with his service number being 115469.
[4] He then joined the Eighth Army, serving in field medical units during the Western Desert campaign.
[6] He spent the later part of the war serving in military base hospitals; specifically in Suez, Cairo and Malta.
[1][13] On 5 April 1973, he was appointed Director General Army Medical Services and granted the acting rank of lieutenant-general.
[2] His funeral was held at St Stephen's Church, South Dulwich, London on 6 June 2007.
Baird was mentioned in dispatches on 13 January 1944 'in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East'.
[20] In the 1973 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).