Sorry further thread creep.
Henry not at all, happy to see the other view.(Punctuation a necessity)
Possibly just substantiates my view of how history gets distorted.
A little extract from Wikipedia
Before World War I, the term "digger" was widely used in Australia to mean a miner, and referring to a Kauri gum-digger in New Zealand. Captain Cyril Longmore 44th Battalion AIF, first recorded the Australian troops doing trench digging practice on Salisbury Plain prior to embarking to Turkey and being called 'diggers' by their mates as the origin of the term.
Anyway back to N%%$#$#. No doubt about it, it was a sterling effort but so were many efforts during that and other wars ( the Swordfish boys)
Last edited by finestkind; 12th Jun 2011 at 11:55.