"Private" Referred to "Digger"
• GANBERRA, June 10. The military rank 'of "Private" would not be changed to /Digger", said the Minister for the Army, Mr. Chambers, in the House of Bepresentatives, in a written reply to Mr. H. B. Gullett • (Liberal). Mr. , Gullett had suggested that a private should be referrefi. to. in future as a digger. Mr. Chambers added that the term private had always been the acceptel mode of address of the lowest rank in certain corps in the armies pf the British Commonwealth whereas the term digger was a eolloquial term applied to all ranks and all ex-members of the Australian and New Zealand military forces and particularly to those who served. in World War I.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1949, Page 3
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