Krischock, Henry, 1940, Photograph, B 17540/66
More than 120,000 people packed the streets as streamers, confetti, and coloured paper floated from the windows and roofs of offices and stores in Rundle street and 1,400 South Australian members of the Second A.I.F. marched over a three-mile route through the city before joining three special express trains for the eastern states at the conclusion of their leave. 14 March 1940.