Thanks Shanreagh but I don't remember my man being a leader of group - just a man in an ordinary suit and tossing his mace. I don't think he was there to guide the march or give instructions. Thanks for assistance
I think you have really answered your own queries? The man was throwing a mace, may have had marching band or army band experience to do this, had served in Aus Forces and therefore able to march in the ANZAC Parades. I don't remember seeing sole mace throwers but I do remember seeing all manner of kit being worn from smart suits with the RSA pin like my dad to various coloured blazers that mainly overseas regiments had ......these marchers had clearly emigrated to NZ after the war and so marched in their colours, Maori Battalion servicemen with cloaks, marching bands of all types and this was in a small rural town of 6,000 or so people. My memory about the mace thrower was not the tossing in the air so much but the movements when they passed the mace around their feet*.
*ETA I learned tennis and serving from an early age so the co-ordination of throwing and hitting compared with the mace throwing and walking did not make me as agog then as how they managed to walk without tripping when they moved it around & between their marching feet. (Clearly before various fitness regimes with moving logs/skipping etc!)
