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The Digger's Diary: A soldier's diary. A decades-long search. A life brought back from history.

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A forgotten soldier. A bullet-pierced diary. A 22-year quest to uncover the truth.

When museum curator Colin Reid is handed a bullet-pierced diary for a Great War exhibition, it sets him on a 22-year search to uncover the fate of its owner, Corporal Claude Nuttall MM.

Written in the trenches of France, the diary offers a rare and deeply personal glimpse into the life of an ordinary Australian soldier — his endurance, his faith, and the quiet courage required to survive the horrors of war. Yet...