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
The Awapuni Racecourse was used as an army camp during the First World War. Note the men in military uniform among the group on the left.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
This photograph shows Bert Malcolm on a motorcycle - the markings on the bike indicate that it is a Rudge Multi. Shortly after this picture was taken, he left for war service in Egypt and Palestine with the Wellington Mounted Rifles. After the war...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1916
This image, showing an unidentified Captain, comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no i...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Date: 1910 to 1920
The Palmerston North cenotaph, constructed in the centre of The Square to commemorate those who died in World War One, was opened by the then Prime Minister Mr Gordon Coates. It was a replica of one in Folkstone, England. Standing speaking is Gord...
Creator: S R Shailer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 1926
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
Will Chapman in army kit (centre, nearest camera) during family farewells on the day that he boarded the troopship SS Willochra bound for Suez. From September 1916 onward he served on the Western Front as a Driver in the Divisional ...
Creator: Unknown
Date: March 3, 1916
A project got underway in 2014 to clean up and restore the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. This photograph shows some of the early work in clearing the site. The work was carried out by the 2nd Health Support Battalion of the ...
Creator: Evan Greensides, for the Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: September 15, 2014
Souvenir - The Final Battle March 1918. Proclamation by his Excellency, The Governor of Palmerston North, James Alfred Nash, Esquire.
Printed by HL Young Limited, Palmerston North
Creator: Patriotic Society (?)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1918
Gilbert Edison Rose's parents were early settlers to the Rangiwahia district. Gilbert served with the 27th New Zealand Mounted Rifles during World War One. His military service began on 28 October 1916 and ended 17 June 1919. After train...
Date: 1916 to 1919
Gilbert Edison Rose with wife Mary Constance Cecile Hinkley (m. 1916). Gilbert Rose's parents were early settlers to the Rangiwahia district. Gilbert served with the 27th New Zealand Mounted Rifles during World War One. His military ser...
Wellington Mounted Rifles, B Squadron
Creator: Whalley and Co, Crown Studios
Date: 1914 to 1919
2017 Armistice Day Service Sheet
Date: November 11, 2017
Colour enhanced print of Memorial Park, looking down from Napier Road side. The War Memorial at right, was dedicated to those who died in World War I and World War II, was opened in 1952 at what was then called Fitzroy Park. It was renamed Memoria...
Creator: Errol Schroder
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
Peace celebrations were held in Palmerston North 19 - 21 July 1919. On Saturday 19 July at 9.30 am a 21 Gun Salute under the direction of Col. McDonald was executed. Later, speeches were given at the show grounds, where these pigeons were released.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1919
Awapuni Racecourse was the site of an army training camp during WW1. The text reads, "Photo taken on some previous occasion before we arrived. The large grandstand with small turret is where we are quartered - the front being covered with tarpauli...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
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
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
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
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
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 image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 April 1958, page 8: "A section of the representatives of various organisations who paid tribute to the fallen during the wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial ye...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 26, 1958
Note the wreaths commemorating Anzac Day. Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 80.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere School, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
The Patriotic Society's fund raising procession entering Coleman Place from The Square. The Patriotic Society was created in 1916, during World War One, for fund raising and welfare purposes.
Creator: Charles Allen
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1918
A project got underway in 2014 to clean up and restore the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. This photograph shows some of the workers who helped early on in clearing the site. The work was carried out by the 2nd Health Sup...
Creator: Evan Greensides, for the Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: September 15, 2014