Thousands watch Anzac march in SA

ADELAIDE'S ANZAC CENTENARY MARCH

* HOW MANY: An estimated 30,000 people watched about 6000 current and former servicemen and women march from the war memorial to the Cross of Sacrifice.

* WHO WAS THERE: All branches of the Australian Defence Force including former members of the 10th Infantry Battalion. The unit was famously one of the first to see action during World War I, and was deployed just two months after the outbreak of hostilities.

* WHAT THEY SAID: "The young people are getting more out of it now than the oldies." - Former World War II navy supply ship serviceman Jack Spriggs.

"I thought what we had to do at that period of time was very necessary." - John Pile, 95, former Ninth Division cavalry soldier.