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The Kia-Ora Coo-ee (cover), 15 March, 1918 - Image courtesy of the Fryer Library
y separately published work icon The Kia-Ora Coo-ee periodical  
Note: Barker was the magazine's art editor.
Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 The Kia-Ora Coo-ee
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

The Kia-Ora Coo-ee was an official Australian and New Zealand service magazine produced in Egypt during 1918. Ten monthly issues of the magazine appeared between March and December 1918, having an average circulation of some 13,000 copies a month. Most of the contributed material which appeared in the Kia-Ora Coo-ee was submitted by Australian and New Zealand troops serving in the Middle East, however it also featured contributions from other Allied service personnel, nurses and civilians. The magazine was edited by peacetime journalists Frank Reid and Charles Barrett, with David Barker acting as art editor. Australian war correspondent Harry Gullett joined the magazine for the final issues.


The editorial piece in the final issue stated 'probably nine published copies out of ten have been posted overseas. Naturally, most of these have been sent to our friends in Australia and New Zealand; and so it has served, as nothing else has done, to make our struggles, and our cares, and the lighter side of our soldier-life, familiar to those who waited and prayed at home.'

Notes

  • Illustrators included: David Barker, Fred Coleman, O.H. ('Ossie') Coulson, R.G. Dunsmuir, Gerald Handfield, Otho Hewett, George Lambert, Arthur Briscoe Moore.
  • The magazine's Committee of Management comprised: Lieut-Col D. Fulton (AIF), Lieut-Col D. Chaytor (NZEF), Major J.H. Hammond (AIF), Capt. W.C. Stillman (AIF), Lieut C.P. McKenzie (NZEF), H.S. Gullett (Australian war correspondent).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cairo,
      c
      Egypt,
      c
      North Africa, Africa,
      :
      s.n. ,
      1918 .
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Cornstalk Publishing , 1981 .
      Alternative title: The Kia-Ora Coo-ee : The Magazine for the ANZACS in the Middle East, 1918
      Extent: 1v.p.
      Edition info: Facsimile edition comprising all issues.
      Note/s:
      • Introduction by David Kent, vii-xv.
      ISBN: 0207144575

Works about this Work

Digger Journalism on Land and Sea 1920 single work column
— Appears in: Aussie: The Australian Soldiers Magazine , 15 April vol. 2 no. 14 1920; (p. 19-21)
Digger Journalism on Land and Sea 1920 single work column
— Appears in: Aussie: The Australian Soldiers Magazine , 15 April vol. 2 no. 14 1920; (p. 19-21)

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Subtitle:
The Official Magazine of the Australian and New Zealand Forces in Egypt, Palestine, Salonica and Mesopotamia
Frequency:
Monthly
Range:
No. 1 15 March 1918 - no.4 15 June 1918; Second Series No. 1 15 July 1918 - no.6 15 December 1918

Has serialised

Army Sketches, A. B. Paterson , series - author short story
Paterson's 'Army Sketches' series appeared in the final three issues of the Kia-Ora Coo-ee.
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