“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes” ... what a later war would call “The Thousand Yard Stare”.
Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder, Digger Smith sets about ministering to everybody’s troubles but his own ... his internal conviction that his amputee status will make him seem “half a man” in the eyes of the lady love he left behind when he went off to the War.
Oh Digger Smith, how little faith you have in woman... - Summary by Son of the Exiles
Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder, Digger Smith sets about ministering to everybody’s troubles but his own ... his internal conviction that his amputee status will make him seem “half a man” in the eyes of the lady love he left behind when he went off to the War.
Oh Digger Smith, how little faith you have in woman... - Summary by Son of the Exiles
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Before The War
09:15 - Chapter 2
Dummy Bridge
08:56 - Chapter 3
Dad
06:30 - Chapter 4
Digger Smith
06:01 - Chapter 5
West
05:08 - Chapter 6
Over The Fence
05:54 - Chapter 7
A Digger's Tale
06:04 - Chapter 8
Jim's Girl
06:24 - Chapter 9
The Boys Out There
05:21 - Chapter 10
Half A Man
05:46 - Chapter 11
Sawin' Wood
05:01 - Chapter 12
Jim
08:03 - Chapter 13
A Square Deal
05:54