Diggers - Australian Miners in the Great War DVD

A Puddle Film

They were nicknamed six bob-a-day tourists, having volunteered to fight a deadly war of stealth, mining below the enemy lines on the Western Front. This is the story of the men who left the gold and copper mines of Queensland, the Opal mines of Lightening Ridge, the mines of Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia and the Hunter Valley NSW and enlisted for the Australian Imperial Forces regiments who fought for the Empire. Duration 90 minutes, Exempt from classification.