floydsroom: floydsroom: Diggers or before they were Red RaggersJournalists in the field were quick
floydsroom: floydsroom: Diggers or before they were Red Raggers Journalists in the field were quick to grasp the significance of ‘Digging’ for the Anzac’s. One reporter refers to them on Gallipoli in October 1915 as, “The best trench diggers in the (British) Army. They work like bullocks, fight like tigers, yet are so cheerful.“ source X but within a wider social context, it is linked to the concept of “egalitarian mateship”.[1] source x 'a man for whom freedom, comradeship, a wide tolerance, and a strong sense of the innate worth of man, count for more than all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory in them.’A G Butler, The Digger: A Study in Democracy, 1945 in The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, p 213 I miss these guys sooo much! Me too wench……me too! -- source link