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AUSTRALIA'S "DIGGER."
Genesis of a Name.
[ tagged as 'Bill Anzac' 'Tommy Cornstalk' Australia Digger origin of Digger ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 30 August 1918, page 4
News 353 wordsAn officer just back from the front relates that the first question asked by an Americanised German prisoner was, "Say[?] why do they call the Australians 'Diggers'?[?] ...
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