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Aussie was a popular Australian soldiers’ magazine during and after the First World War. It was first published in the field, in Flêtre, France, on 18 January 1918, by the Australian Imperial Forces (1918–19), and then published in Sydney, Australia (1920–31). Inspired by its long-term founding editor Phillip Lawrence Harris, and issued on a small printing press that Harris brought with him to France (Harris was a journalist from a publishing family), this magazine became a very popular journal in the field. As Harris describes, ‘Aussie was not a paper done for the Diggers, but by them. That’s why it reflects their spirit’ (Harris 1920, introduction). Major-General White further notes that ‘there was something in the little paper which appealed to the Australian soldier. It reflected the good humour and spirit of camaraderie of the A.I.F.’ (Harris 1920, foreword).
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Duché, V., de Léger, D.S. (2016). Aussie. In: Declercq, C., Walker, J. (eds) Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550361_6
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