However unlike in 2014 when veterans, families and school students used Havelock Street, instead of the shopping strip, another north-south thoroughfare – Hume Street – to the west of High Street is being tipped to host the marchers. 

Wodonga RSL sub-branch secretary Jenny Bolt said the city council had briefed her on the likely route.

“We can’t use Hovell Street, because of the access for the police, it looks like it will be a Hume Street march,” Mrs Bolt said.

“We’ll form up in Junction Place and then go to Hume Street into Lawrence Street and then round the roundabout to the cenotaph.”

Mrs Bolt expects there will be some public grumbling at the news.

“I think they’ll whinge but it will happen and if that’s the way the march goes they’ll come, they’ll go anywhere to the march,” she said.

“It made no difference at all (in 2014), the street was still lined with people.”

Wodonga Council last week awarded tenders for reconstruction and landscaping works along High Street, between Elgin Boulevard and Lawrence Street.

Under the contract deals the project is not due to be fully completed until June 30, 2019.

Mrs Bolt said screening was expected to be erected to block out views of the roadworks for those gathered in Woodland Grove for Anzac Day.

Meanwhile, the NSW RSL will stage its annual meeting in Albury on Wednesday as part of its congress which has drawn hundreds to the city.

High on the agenda will be a plan to change the veterans’ group’s constitution to allow every member to have a vote for RSL leaders, as opposed to the current system involving chiefs being selected by an electoral college.

The switch is one of a number of moves, including law changes, that have been recommended to increase the RSL’s accountability after scandals that included a former president misusing a corporate credit card.