A slang term for a soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
Diggers Quotes in Black Diggers
The Black Diggers quotes below are all either spoken by Diggers or refer to Diggers. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Playlab edition of Black Diggers published in 2015.
Act One
Quotes
HARRY: If you blokes have a beer with me then that’s a start.
STAN: What are you on about? We’d always have a beer with you.
FIRST WHITE SOLDIER: You’re as good as a white man, Harry.
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Diggers Term Timeline in Black Diggers
The timeline below shows where the term Diggers appears in Black Diggers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act Two
In a pub on Anzac Day in 1932, a pub worker kicks Archie and another digger out, even though they are dressed formally and even wearing their war medals, which the...
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End Matter
...book after the text of the play. First is “A Brief History of the Indigenous Diggers in World War I,” in which a researcher for the play, Dr. David Williams, explains...
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