THE LORD GAVE AND
THE LORD HAS TAKEN AWAY
OUR DEAR NORMAN

PRIVATE NORMAN DONALD MCPHEE

8TH BTTN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

29TH JUNE 1916 AGE 29

BURIED: BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION, BELGIUM


Private McPhee's parents quote the Old Testament, Job 1 21-2. On receiving the news of the death of all his children and the loss of all his possessions, Job falls to his knees saying:
Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall return thither: the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Three weeks after Norman's death, his brother William James McPhee was killed, the same day that another brother was wounded, the 19 July 1916. A fourth of the McPhee brothers was wounded on 7 June 1917.