 After contracting a malignant form of malaria, and suffering a series of fevers, she was invalided home to Britain in March 1918.She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1931.In 1940, Cruickshank was named Commandant of the Rushen Women's and Married Internees Camp on the Isle of Man; she was later succeeded by Detective Inspector Cuthbert of New Scotland Yard.