More Info →The Queen Mother presents the Squadron Standard to the RNZAF No. 75 Squadron

Description

In a formal ceremony held at the Showgrounds in Palmerston North, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, presented the Royal New Zealand Air Force's No. 75 Squadron with a Standard for ‘specially outstanding operations’.

This image the Squadron Standard on parade after its formal presentation by the Queen Mother. The Manawatu Evening Standard reported that the Standard consisted of a “…fringed and tasselled light blue silken banner mounted on a pike which is crowned with a golden eagle. Eight selected battle honours (No. 75 Squadron has a total of 14 Battle Honours) are in scrolls surrounding the Squadron Badge. The whole is enclosed in a decorative border of golden fern fronds.”

Elizabeth’s 1958 visit to Palmerston North was part of a wider Royal tour of New Zealand which also included stops in Auckland, Kaitaia, Hamilton, Napier, New Plymouth, and Wellington. In the South Island, she visited Blenheim, Dunedin, Invercargill and Christchurch.

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

PNCC City Planning

Relation

PNCC7-8-3

Date

February 6, 1958

Digitisation ID

2024S_PNCC7-8-3-Box5_Evans_042319

Format

Colour negative

Held In

"PNCC Archives"