Special Routine Order No. 2 by Brigadier G S Peren, Commanding, for units representing the 4th NZ Division, RNZAF and WWSA parading in Palmerston North to celebrate the allied victory in North Africa, during World War II. Details information neede...
Creator: 4th New Zealand Division
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 13, 1943
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. This letter to his mother is written from "Melbourn House". The letter mainly enquires about news from home.
Len enlisted and served in World War One. He died at Chunuk ...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Unknown
Date: August 6, 1913
Postcard sent to Hector Argyle of Bunnythorpe, from his brother Len who was serving overseas in World War One. Nothing personal was written on these postcards, except for a name and date.
Len Argyle later died at Gallipoli in 1915.
Creator: Len Argyle
Date: July 21, 1915
Postcard sent to Hector Argyle of Bunnythorpe, from his brother Pat (Percival) who was serving overseas in World War One. Nothing personal was written on these postcards, except for a name and date.
Pat Argyle later died at Gallipoli in 1915.
Creator: Pat Argyle
Date: July 21, 1915
Letter from Pat (Percival) Argyle. Pat Argyle (1890-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Len enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One.
This letter from Pat to ...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Date: March 24, 1915
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, was sent from...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Trentham, Upper Hutt
Date: February 7, 1915
Letter from the No. 1 Polish General Hospital, to the Polish Army League, thanking them for parcels sent. The Polish Army League, founded in Palmerston North in WWII, corresponded with and sent parcels to Polish soldiers who served with the allies...
Creator: D.C. No.1 Polish General Hospital
Place: Unknown
Date: March 21, 1944
Pat (Percival) Argyle (1890-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. At the time of this letter to his mother he was in Sydney and talks about what it is like. Mentions Jimmy Neil from Palmerston in the South Island.
Pat enlis...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Place: Sydney, Australia
Date: June 19, 1912
Envelope addressed to Mrs Henry (Alice) Argyle of Bunnythorpe, from one of her sons, Pat or Len, who served overseas in World War One. Both men died at Gallipoli in 1915.
The envelope was provided by the Young Men's Christian Association - Army ...
Creator: Len or Pat Argyle
Date: 1915
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, is presumed t...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Gallipoli
Date: July 28, 1915
A letter from the City Electrical Engineer, Mr R G McInnes, to the Palmerston North City Council Energy Committee, recommending a new cross due to disrepair of the old one. A 'temporary' cross was first affixed to the top of the Clock Tower in The...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 30, 1979
Letter from Pat (Percival) Argyle. Pat Argyle (1890-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Len enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One.
This letter from Pat to h...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Date: March 7, 1915
Letter to Charlotte Warburton, Chairwoman of the Palmerston North Women's War Service Auxiliary, requesting attendance at a meeting to form a Women's House Committee in conjunction with the Army, Navy and Air Force Club. From J R Hardie, Secretary...
Creator: J R Hardie, Secretary, A.N.A. Club
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 26, 1941
The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Stewart Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and brother of Ron Grammer. The family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. ...
Creator: Stuart Grammer
Date: 1944
A copy of a letter from Captain Adam Kubaczka of the 3rd Carpathian Division Soldiers Welfare to the Polish Army League, thanking them for the parcels that they send to Polish soldiers. The Polish Army League, founded in Palmerston North in WWII, ...
Creator: Captain Adam Kubaczka (a translation)
Place: Unknown
Date: March 8, 1945
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. This letter to his mother is written from "Melbourn House", which the letter suggests is somewhere in the North Island. The letter mainly enquires about his mother's heal...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Unknown
Date: July 3, 1913
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. This letter to his mother is written from "Melbourn House", which the letter suggests is somewhere in the North Island. The letter mainly enquires about news from home.
...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Unknown
Date: May 29, 1913
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, was sent from...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Egypt
Date: May 10, 1915
Pat (Percival) Argyle (1890-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. At the time of this letter he was working in Wellington, after leaving the railways.
Pat enlisted and served in World War One. He died at Chunuk Bair in 1915.
Creator: Pat Argyle
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1911
Exercise book used for notes about the work of the WWSA in Palmerston North during World War Two, as kept by Charlotte Warburton. Charlotte Warburton was the Chairwoman of the organisation that coordinated women's war work in Palmeston North, to e...
Creator: Charlotte Warburton
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter, from Len to his brothers, Hector and ...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Gallipoli
Date: July 28, 1915
Letter from Pat (Percival) Argyle. Pat Argyle (1890-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Len enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One.
This letter from Pat to h...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Place: Egypt
Date: April 4, 1915
Pat (Percival) Argyle (1890-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. At the time of this letter he was working as a labourer near Ohakune. This letter is to his mother and tells of his work.
Pat and his brother Len enlisted an...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Place: Ohakune area
Date: June 26, 1907
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, was sent from...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Trenthan, Upper Hutt
Date: 1915
In 1953 Arthur Hopwood, of Arthur Hopwood Hardware, gifted the city of Palmerston North £10,000 to build a new tower in The Square, to hold the clock and chimes formerly in the Post Office. He wrote and thanked the Palmerston North City Council fo...
Creator: Arthur Hopwood
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 4, 1953
Envelope addressed in the hand writing of George Canning, from London and date stamped 31 May 1826. Geo. Canning's name underlined next to address. George Canning was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a short time in 1827, when Lord Palmer...
Creator: George Canning
Place: England
Date: May 31, 1826
Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), after whom Palmerston North was named, was born Henry John Temple, son of Viscount Palmerston. He served as a British Member of Parliament, in high office and then Prime Minister, almost continuously from 1807 to his d...
Creator: Lord Palmerston
Place: England
Date: November 28, 1852
Letter from the Polish Combatants Association of New Zealand to the Polish Army League, thanking them for their work done during World War Two and beyond. The Polish Army League, founded in Palmerston North in WWII, corresponded with and sent parc...
Creator: J Holana and J E Sledzinski
Place: Wellington
Date: July 31, 1950
A history of the Polish Army League. Although undated includes information post World War Two on the gifts sent back to New Zealand from Polish Forces, as a thank you for the friendship and kindness shown. It also includes a then current list of t...
Creator: Miss G C Tennent
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1946?
Envelope addressed and signed by Lord Palmerston, to Rev. W Emery B D [William], Archdeacon of Ely, Christs College, Cambridge. Subsequently readdressed by another to A Brady Esquire, Maryland Point, Stratford, London. Envelope date stamped, with ...
Creator: Lord Palmerston and other
Place: England
Date: March 31, 1865 to April 1, 1865