A group of eight army personnel posed with military vehicles at the Linton Army Camp. This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Linton Camp
Date: November 1953
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 June, 1959. "Commander A. V. Kempthorne, the officer in charge of the Navy Recruiting Board (left), conducts one of a number of interviews at the Palmerston North Cit...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-06-23T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15th January, 1963. "The 2nd Squadron of the Engineers' Regiment are seen carrying out a minesweeping exercise at the Linton Military Camp. Six soldiers probe for anti-t...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton Military Camp
Date: 1963-01-13T00:00:00+00:00
This engineering display was to show Engineering Officers and Senior Officers the capabilities of equipment used by the New Zealand Army. The building of an infantry assault bridge, across the lake at Linton Camp, was part of the display.
Creator: Manawatu Guardian
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1975
Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry.
In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perr...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton Military Camp
Date: June 20, 1994
A group of recruits perform stretches alongside the track at the Awapuni Racecourse. This was home to one of New Zealand’s largest training camps in World War One, and was the sole location for training the New Zealand Medical Corps staff. The ins...
Date: September 1918
A large group of soldiers stand on parade in front of what appear to be the betting windows at the Awapuni Racecourse. This was home to one of New Zealand’s largest training camps in World War One, and was the sole location for training the New Ze...
Date: circa 1918
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
ANZAC Day Dawn Parade 2018, The Square, Palmerston North
Creator: PNCC
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 2018
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
ANZAC Day Dawn Parade 2018, The Square, Palmerston North
Creator: PNCC
Date: April 25, 2018
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 November, 1959. “The highlight during the military training period at the Palmerston North Boys’ High School yesterday for the Air Training Corps section was being ab...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
A group of military personnel, with three nurses in uniform. Possibly at Linton Army Camp. See also FM104
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
Caption: "The Cheif of Air Staff (Designate) of the R.A.F., Air Chief Marshall Sir Charles Elworthy, G.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O., D...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Ohakea
Date: August 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 May 1958, page 11: "A guard of honour was inspected at Ohakea yesterday after the arrival of the United States Army Commander in Chief in the Pacific, General I.D. Wh...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea
Date: May 15, 1958
A group of about 20 recruits pose with shovels alongside a completed trench, the walls of which are lined with sandbags. The track of the Awapuni Racecourse is visible in the background. This was home to one of New Zealand’s largest training camps...
Date: circa 1918
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 1 April, 1959. "The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson at Ohakea." Another photo associated with this article was published and appears...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea
Date: 1959-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
A group of recruits eat and drink outdoors, somewhere in the vicinity of the Awapuni Military Training Camp, one of New Zealand’s largest training camps in World War One, and was the sole location for training the New Zealand Medical Corps staff. ...
Date: October 1918
This ANZAC Day quilt was created by staff and customers of the Palmerston North City Library in 2017. Each year it is hung in the library around the ANZAC Day time period.
Creator: Alexander Robertson for PNCC
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 2019
Lest we forget - Dawn service ANZAC Day, 2019. This work was created by The RENA Movement.
Creator: Melissa van Leeuwen
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 2019
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
These images were taken for the September 24th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, the first of which was published with the caption: “Some spectacular jet-boating was seen in the Manawatu Gorge last Thursday when 48 boats competing in ...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Manawatū River
Date: September 24, 1978
These images were taken for an advert for Exterior Painters Ltd, which ran in different editions of the Tribune newspaper, including the July 16th, 1978 edition.
These images form part of the Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection. Unfortu...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 16, 1978
This image was published in the July 2nd, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper. It depicts Palmerston North Public Relations Officer Nev MacEwan standing outside the PRO office.
The title of the article read: "Crs' Comments About PRO 'Cod...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 7, 1978
This image was published in the July 9th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper.
The caption read: “While in Palmerston North, conservation-minded Dr Shearer took the opportunity to inspect the city council's parks and reserves department'...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 9, 1978
These images were taken for the July 16th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, the first of which was published.
The small article read: “Traffic lights have been installed at the intersection of Ruahine and Main Streets. And more traff...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Intersection of Ruahine and Main Streets
Date: July 16, 1978
These images were taken for the July 16th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, the first of which was published.
The caption read: “Three of the big warplanes wait for their next sortie.”
An extract from the article read: “Probably the...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Ohakea
Date: July 23, 1978
This image was published in the July 9th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper.
"Communism in New Zealand, student bursaries, Maori land, native forests, abortion and issues for the coming General Election were all points aired by a forme...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 9, 1978
This image was published in the July 16th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper.
An extract from the article read: “While one big building is now being demolished in Palmerston North, an even bigger $1million building is planned to replac...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 16, 1978
These images were taken for the July 2nd, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper – the first of which was published. They depict Berry Engineering sheet-metal worker John Eaton discussing his life altering diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. ...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 2, 1978