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:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926

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:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 7, 1926

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

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The stories about the lives of service personnel named on war memorials have often been lost in time. Their stories lived in the memories of their relatives, who are often no ...

Creator:      Dorothy Pilkington
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          November 9, 2024

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 30th of April 1970. "Between 40 and 50 people have kept a 'peace vigil' at the Palmerston North Cenotaph since mid-day yesterday - with the Hastings ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1971

ANZAC Day parade through the Square, lead by the Mayor (Mr. G.M. Rennie) and senior military officers. Return Services Members line the road behind.

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

The Manawatū Scottish Society Pipe Band is lining the path to the Cenotaph in the Square, as part of the ANZAC Day commemorative service. Mayor Gilbert Rennie is visible standing opposite the band. The Commercial Hotel and Buildings, and the Milne...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [Image of cenotaph in Pahiatua.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Shannon
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Shannon
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 April, 1959. "The Rev. C. F. Browne is here seen officiating at the mid-morning Anzac service held at the Palmerston North Cenotaph. The guardsmen have been selected...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 September, 1959. "Pictured are some of the 14 persons who laid wreaths at the commemoration ceremony of the Battle of Britain yesterday in Palmerston North. From lef...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Members of the public admire the floral tributes to fallen solders, which have been laid in front of the Cenotaph to commemorate ANZAC Day.

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1970s

The war memorial in The Square lit up at night. It was built in 1926 and records the names of local soldiers who died fighting for New Zealand in all wars. One of a series of images of Palmerston North produced for sale.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

Looking across the central portion of the Square, with railway tracks running through, towards Church Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

The Palmerston North cenotaph was constructed in the centre of The Square in 1926 to commemorate those who died in World War One. It has since had names added to commemorate all those local men who have died in wars or conflicts. the memorial is a...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Te Mare o Hine/The Square
Date:          2018

This photograph was taken from the tower of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building, near the corner of Broadway Avenue and The Square. This partial view of the Square shows a number of its most rec...

Creator:      A Kelt
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1952

The War Memorial, 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 Memorial Park in 1954.

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Memorial Park, Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 23, 1975

The Palmerston North War Memorial which was unveiled in 1925. Note the Band Rotunda and Municipal Library directly behind the Memorial.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

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:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

Memorial wreath created with the help of local volunteers and staff from the Palmerston North City Library. The wreath was laid at The Cenotaph in The Square on ANZAC Day 2016.

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          The Square
Date:          April 25, 2016

This photograph came from a small photograph album that belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, " War Memorial. PN 14-1-1928". The Palmerston North cenotaph, also known as the War Memorial, was constructed...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 14, 1928

Drone aerial view of the Cenotaph during the ANZAC Day 2015 dawn ceremony.

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          The Square
Date:          April 25, 2015

The war memorial, unveiled in 1926, stands in the centre of the Square. It was a replica of one in Folkstone, England. Originally erected to honour the dead of World War I, further names from WWII, Korea and Vietnam wars have since been added.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1930