2012, Rosemary Rowe , Whispering of Spies , Half of the unit was preparing for some training exercise, apparently a route-march carrying full kit.
2013, Stuart Tootal , The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission , He then proceeded to lead them on a route-march at a blistering pace that many struggled to keep up with.
2013, Gerald Kersh , The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories , We had been out on a route-march. You know, I daresay, that nowadays a route-march is not simply a matter of marching. In a route-march there is involved a certain amount of field training.
2015, Colleen Ryan Clur , Pixie Annat: Champion of Nurses , This young officer came up to me and asked me whether I would mind marching more slowly -- they were running out of puff. I thought I was supposed to go on a route-march and be back by a certain time.
1998, Jill Neville , The Love Germ , Anna, she sensed, was the kind of indomitable woman who could go on a route-march for seven days and nights without sleeping.
2011 , James Hurst , Game to the Last: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli , The troops drilled, trained, route-marched, and adapted to military life and to each other.
2013 , Alan Whicker , Whicker’s War and Journey of a Lifetime , The Battalion of East Surreys billeted in its sad empty houses was route-marched through the rain around Stirling.
(informal) To go or send on a long, exhausting tour by foot.
2013 , Paul Du Noyer , Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party , I always describe Deaf School as my tertiary education, I was route-marched around galleries and museums for the entire week, with running commentaries by informed people.
