Antedating of "oojah" and "oojahkapivi"

[Stephen Goranson]

Perhaps relevant, from "Letters From the Front" in The Tumut Advocate and Farmers & Settlers' Adviser (NSW) 23 August 1915, from an 11 July letter:

"....The Hoojahs charged our trenches....I was shooting Hoojahs trying to creep back into their trenches...."

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/112267013?searchTerm=hoojah&searchLimits=l-textSearchScope=*ignore*|*ignore*|||l-word=*ignore*|*ignore*|||sortby=dateAsc

Stephen Goranson
http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
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>From db "The First World War: Personal Experiences":

1917 _Lines. The official organ of the Divisional Signal Company, RE_  (Nov.)
13: Things We Don't Expect ... A civi [sic] to understand the order "Take
this ujakapivi and go to the oojah and bring some what's it."

JL
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