Digger Smith

Author(s): C. J. Dennis

Genre(s): Romance, War & Military Fiction, Narratives

Narrators: Son Of The Exiles

Number of Chapters: 13

Length: 01 hour and 24 minutes

Language: English

“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