What a bloody waste. "The story of one Scottish mother's struggle after she lost four sons in the First World War has been turned into a book which will be published to coincide with her family's first ever international reunion. Elizabeth Cranston was so devastated when four of her sons were killed and another two seriously injured that she left Scotland for Australia in an attempt to escape her tragic past. But her dreams of a new start also turned sour and she gradually lost her grip on reality, ending up making a daily pilgrimage to the local railway station where she would wait for hours for her beloved boys to come home.+11 Now the tragic story of losing her sons has been turned into a book, Blood On The Thistle, written by her Australian great-grandson Stuart Pearson, with the help of a Scottish historian." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2622532/Story-Scottish-mothers-struggle-losing-four-sons-WW1-turned-book-published-coincide-familys-international-reunion.html#ixzz315BFNKpm