PRIVATE JOHN MCDONALD
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
25TH APRIL 1916 AGE 19
BURIED: BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE
"Jesus wept", St John 11:35, as he shared in the grief surrounding the death of Lazarus, causing those around him to say, "Behold how he loved him!" Jesus then raises Lazarus from the dead, not as in the terms of the resurrection to eternal life but to full life. This is just after Jesus had told Martha, Lazarus' sister:
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
And she saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Is this the meaning of the inscription Nulina McDonald chose for her son, John, who died of wounds in No.8 General Hospital, Bois-Guillaume, Rouen.