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The diggers (ANZAC)The diggers were popular term used to describe servicemen in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the First World War. So called due to the amount of digging undertaken by these troops as they served in the trenches of France and Belgium.Diggers were seen to possess the characteristics of hardiness, democratic spirit, mateship and resourcefulness. 
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