Pat Argyle (189o-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 his parents is from Trentham Trainin...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Place: Trentham, Upper Hutt
Date: January 21, 1915
A war memorial to commemorate local soldiers who died in World War One was erected in the centre of The Square, Palmerston North, in 1926. The figure that sits atop the memorial was based on a similar one in Folkstone, England. Today it also comme...
Creator: Crown Studios
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 1926
A display of poppies made of flax and woven by the community for ANZAC Day 2016 in The Square, Palmerston North.
Creator: Steph
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 22, 2016
This postcard comes from the Mackrell Archive. They came to be in possession of the Mackrell family by way of Huia Mackrell's wife, Doris Cammock (later Mrs Mackrell, of Woodville). They were sent by Doris' brother Frank while he was serving in th...
Creator: Frank Cammock
Date: April 13, 1917
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Creator: Palmerston North & Districts Soldiers' Memorial Fund
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1923 to 1924
The event celebrated the restoration of North Slesvig from Germany to Denmark following voting by its inhabitants. The Palmerston North event attracted around 400 Danish settlers and descendants of Danes from around New Zealand. See the 15 April 1...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 1920
This booklet comes the Ian Matheson City Archives Research Files, available for viewing on the 2nd Floor of the Central Library building. This programme lists a number of events, including concerts, raffles and parades - including a parade where y...
Creator: The Patriotic Society (?)
Date: 1914 to 1918
ANZAC Day 2018
Creator: PNCC
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 2018
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: 67 Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
A project got underway in 2014 to clean up and restore the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. This photograph shows the site under construction at the June 30 2016 work day. The memorial, dedicated to the memory of officers and m...
Creator: Darren Beck
Date: June 30, 2016
This portrait is of Frank Cammock, Woodville resident and a labourer in the Kiwi Bacon Factory.
He served in World War One. His service record lists him as being "Killed in Action in the field Belgium 14 October 1917".
This portrait was passed ...
Date: 1914 to 1917
Norman Edgar Hassell was born 6 September 1894, at Akatarawa, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. He served in World War One and wrote his memories of that time in retrospect, c. 1941 - 1942. Photographs of Norman Hassell in uniform and Norman and 'Pony...
Creator: Norman Hassell
Date: 1914 to 1918
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was memorial was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corp...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Private Stewart was 18 when he was killed at Passchendaele (Belgium) on 12 October 1917. Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 77.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1917
This is the committee of Danes who organised the dinner at Palmerston North to celebrate the return of Northern Schleswig to Denmark. The Palmerston North event attracted around 400 Danish settlers and descendants of Danes from around New Zealand....
Creator: Anderson Family
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1920
This postcard comes from the W H Smith . He was a journalist and newspaper proprietor in Wairapa, Blenheim, Palmerston North and Marton. He came to Palmerston North in 1882 as editor of "The Manawatu Times" and was owner of that paper from 1884 to...
Date: 1916
The Fifth Wellington Regiment at Palmerston North Camp, May 1915, shown in front of the Grandstand at Awapuni Military Camp. Note the men in civilian attire in the back two rows - these may indicate a shortage in uniforms, something which did...
Place: Awapuni
Date: May 1915
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Fundraising to support the war effort was extensive from the start of World War 1. From 1915, Queen carnivals were held. These fundraising extravaganzas were competitions hel...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 6, 2024
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of newspaper reporter Nelle (Ellen) Margaret Scanlan. Using the pen name Awapuni, she wrote the weekly column "Palmerston Doings" from 1915 to 1921 in New Zealand F...
Creator: Val Burr
Date: April 13, 2024
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Mayor Grant Smith asked that the traditional ANZAC Day poppy wreath be a community created object in 2016. Hundreds of knitted, felted and crocheted poppies were donated to the project and hand-stitched on to the wreath.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 2016
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
The event celebrated the restoration of North Slesvig from Germany to Denmark following voting by its inhabitants. The Palmerston North event attracted around 400 Danish settlers and descendants of Danes from around New Zealand. See the 15 April 1...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 14, 1920
Armistice Day celebrates the end of World War I and remembers those members of the armed forces who were killed during the war. Part of the parade is lined up outside the Rongotea Post Office.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: November 11, 1921
This is a photograph of Robert Carville Bett (8 June 1891-16 June 1917). A photograph of R. C. Bett with a brass plaque is held at St Andrews church in Palmerston North. It seems that he had played the church organ up until April 1905 when he resi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1914
The Scandinavian Club held a stall in March 1915 in order to raise funds for the Belgian Relief Fund (see 2007n_scand2_gro_1135). It is unclear if this is a different occasion - however, the setting and costumes are different in the two photograph...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1917
A complete list of all the people named on the Palmerston North War Memorial Cenotaph in The Square, in two parts. The first part is the original WWI names from the 1926 Memorial opening, transcribed in 1990. The second part is a list of names fou...
Creator: PNCC and War Research Group
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1990
This photograph is thought to have been taken at Awapuni.
Creator: Charles Allen
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: 1914 to 1919
Battered remains of an envelope originally containing John Henry Chapman’s last letter (dated October 1918) to his younger brother Will Chapman, then serving in Northern France. It was returned to sender, arriving just under a year ...
Creator: John Chapman
Date: 1918