Hi Annie
Yes it would be nice to have a definite answer to our story. Barbara may come across some more information but maybe it was just that David's family was fractured after his death and couldn't l;et my grandmother know. It seems strange that his sister Elizabeth was the next of kin and not his father. Maybe if, as Barbara has said, the family didn't approve of the new wife, that there was a falling out? My mum always said that her mum had told her that the family didn't want to know her, and she certainly always thought that he died after the armistice.
I'd love to find more about Elizabeth M who David must have been staying with in Freuchie, although the a war record puts him at 131 Morrison St in Edinburgh after that. My grandmother was living in Gorgie.
