20 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Coo-ee March

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Commemorative issue

Australia Remembers - Coo-ee March

Obverse

4th portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2015
IRB

Engraver: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Australian men marching with the Australian Flag through the streets of Gilgandra NSW

Lettering:
AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS
20
COO-EE MARCH - 1915

Engraver: A. Baggio

Edge

Reeded

© Mike Bentley

Comments

This NCLT 20 cent coin was released by the RAM in a large coincard. It is the seventh coin in a series of  seven "Australia Remembers" 20 cent coins.



The coin commemorates the famous "Coo-ee March".  On the morning of October the 10th 1915, saw 26 young men leave their hometown of Gilgandra, central west of New South Wales, in a recruiting march effort to join the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).  The Coo-ees as they became known had increased in number to 263 by the time they had covered the 320 miles to arrive in Sydney and enlist, their youthful enthusiasm encouraging many men to answer the call from the Dardanelles along the way. News spread quickly and subsequent snowball marches started soon after all over Australia, the Coo-ees were joined in history by the Kookaburras, Kurrajongs and Boomerangs to name just a few.

See also

• Flag
• War

• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Nurses)
• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Lost Soldiers of Fromelles)
• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - War Historians)
• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Merchant Navy)
• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Army Chaplains)
• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australian Comforts Fund)

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