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.