Diggers

Story

Synopsis

Attending a reunion, two Australian ex-servicemen reminisce about their exploits in France during WW1. These include lying in a field hospital where they feigned deafness to extend their recuperation, stealing jars of rum from the Quartermaster and inventing an elaborate ruse to hide them and finally, the night before returning to the front relaxing in a French café where romance blossoms between the soldier and waitress as told through the song 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres'.

Director

F.W. Thring

Writers

Pat Hanna, Eric Donaldson

Language

English

Country

Australia

Release date

5 November 1931

Ensemble

Cast

• Pat Hanna

  Chic Williams

• 

  George Moon

  Joe Mulga

• Joe Valli

  Corporal McTavish

• Norman French

  Medical Officer

• Edmund Warrington

  Fatty

• Cecil Scott

  Bluey

• Guy Hastings

  Q.M. Sergeant