Digger Smith
C. J. Dennis
Read by Son of the Exiles
“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 (1 hr 24 min)
Chapters
| Before The War | 9:15 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Dummy Bridge | 8:56 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Dad | 6:30 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Digger Smith | 6:01 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| West | 5:08 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Over The Fence | 5:54 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| A Digger's Tale | 6:04 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Jim's Girl | 6:24 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| The Boys Out There | 5:21 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Half A Man | 5:46 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Sawin' Wood | 5:01 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Jim | 8:03 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| A Square Deal | 5:54 | Read by Son of the Exiles |