Route and statistics for recruiting marches 1915-1916

 

Name of march Date Starting point End point Distance (miles) Numbers
Start

Arrival

Coo-ees 10 Oct - 12 Nov 1915 Gilgandra Sydney 320 30

263

Waratahs 30 November –
17 December 1915
Nowra Sydney 100 50

120

Kangaroos 1 December 1915 –
7 January 1916
Wagga Wagga Sydney 350 88

230

Wallabies 1.December 1915 –
8 January 1916
Narrabri Newcastle 300 38

173

Dungarees November 1915 Warwick, Qld Brisbane 160 30

125

Men from Snowy River 6 – 29 January 1916 Delegate Goulburn 220 30

144

Kurrajongs January 1916 Inverell Narrabri 160 114

150

Kookaburras 12 January –
3 February 1916
Tooraweenah Bathurst 210 23

100

North Coast Boomerangs January 1916 – Grafton Maitland 320 27

240

Central West Boomerangs 19 January 1916 -
5 February 1916
Parkes Bathurst 185 71

202

 

Note: this list is not comprehensive. It includes only the best known marches.

Sources

    • Ernest Scott, Australia during the war, the official history of Australia in the war of 1914–1918, vol. 11, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1941, p. 316

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