Bonjour Digger

Herbert Scanlon spent most of 1916 on the battlefields of France, being billeted by French families and helping reconstruct French villagers with his AIF detachment. In this way he was a typical Australian in action, but he was also very young, only 17, and every event made an impression. After the war he wrote 17 little booklets about the Digger's war experience, and this book, the first ever compilation of his work, concentrates on the 40 French tales; the little wins, the little tragedies, the great love displayed by the French for the Australian contingents that year. 120 pages, full colour, in our Sydney-Paris Link series.