Young Digger

A true story of hope & renewal from the award-winning author of Soldier Boy

A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past & an extraordinary future, he becomes a mascot for the air squadron & is affectionately named "Young Digger". And in one of the most unusual incidents ever to emerge from the battlefields of Europe after the Great War, this solitary boy is smuggled back to Australia.