All of city invited to start of Kangaroo March re-enactment

By Ken Grimson
Updated September 4 2015 - 3:17pm, first published 3:16pm
ON THE MARCH: The original Kangaroos on the march through the Riverina. Picture: Australian War Memorial.
ON THE MARCH: The original Kangaroos on the march through the Riverina. Picture: Australian War Memorial.

NEARLY 100 years ago, between 5000 and 6000 people milled around Wagga’s town hall, Baylis and Fitzmaurice streets to farewell 88 men known as Kangaroos at the start of their recruitment march to Sydney and military service in World War I.

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