DIGGING INTO MY FAMILY'S PAST

I have this lovely photo of Catherine Miller * , my dad’s Grannie, with my dad, Alexander Malcolm Miller, and his younger brother, Jack (John Miller).  Catherine is dressed in a black dress, jacket and hat. She has a slight smile on her face. To me, she looks like a caring grandmother, happy to have a photograph taken with these two small boys.   My dad's Miller family lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for many generations and many worked as printers. Catherine Miller (M.S. Macdonald) married Alexander Miller in Edinburgh in 1877.   The father of the children in the photo was Grannie’s eldest son, John Lucas Miller, born in 1878. He was killed at the Battle of Loos 1915 during WWI. As I wrote this story, I realised that this photo, and another I own that shows John Lucas in his Cameron Highlander uniform with his wife, were most likely taken before John Lucas left Scotland for the front. The family would probably have kept a copy and he, too, would have taken a copy to k...