This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 August 1958, page 6: "Members of No. 14 Squadron, recently returned from Malaya, paraded in the Square yesterday. Although the weather was dismal it was a poor crowd ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: August 12, 1958
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 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 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
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
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
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
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 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
To celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a procession was held in Palmerston North on 2 June 1953. This departed from the Municipal Opera House on Church Street and concluded with events at the Palmerston North Showgrounds.
Creator: Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date: June 1953
To celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a procession was held in Palmerston North on 2 June 1953. This departed from the Municipal Opera House on Church Street and concluded with events at the Palmerston North Showgrounds.
Creator: Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date: June 1953
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th May 2020. Part 2 of 2. Palmerston North Defence Heritage Advisory Group activities. Anniversaries and commemorations. Military history presentations. Recordings of talks at <a href="https://www.n...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 19, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th May 2020. Part 1 of 2. Defence Heritage work since 2015. Coordinating defence heritage activities, ANZAC Day, Military Tattoo, etc.. Participants in the Heritage group. Attendance on ANZAC Day. B...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 12, 2020
This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
During World War One Manawaroa Te Awe Awe offered the Government the use of part of his farm for a training camp, to replace the camp at Trentham (Wellington) which had been evacuated. Samuel Jickell, Palmerston North Borough Council Civil Enginee...
Creator: F. B. H.
Place: Rangiotu, Manawatu
Date: 1915 to 1916
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
This photograph shows Lieut. F D Opie, Capt. R H Whalley and Lieut. W R Kells in uniform. Francis (Frank) Dudley Opie was the first director at Palmerston North Technical College. He held the role from 1907-1924. He also served as a volunteer offi...
Date: circa 1913
Studio portrait of the Officers in uniform. Centre is Captain John E Hall, Captain of the Corps 1891 - 1898.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1895
Two unidentified members of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles, on horseback, at an encampment, possibly the Hokowhitu Rifle Range.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1891 to 1893
A group of about fifteen soldiers stand outside of The Commons, a grand house with a conservatory in Northam, Devon. Four of them sit in an automobile. Some of the men are wearing 'hospital blues' suggesting that the house served as a convalescen...
Date: circa 1917 to circa 1919
On July 21, 1919, King George V approved the award of a silk Union Flag to be presented to Territorial Force Battalions and Battalions serving overseas. Here the flags are being presented to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Battalions, Wellington Regiment, afte...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 25, 1920
This member of the Linton Rifle Club is thought to be William Wallace Cook (1890-1957), who was awarded a Military Cross in World War One.
Creator: Whalley and Co.
Date: circa 1930
Special District Order No. 43/1915. By Colonel R. W. Tate, Commanding Wellington Military District.
The subject of this paper is the four-company organization recently adopted for the infantry of the Regular Army, and which will shortly be also ...
Creator: Hereward Wake
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 17, 1915
The Māori Battalion trained at the Palmerston North Showgrounds during World War Two. This is one of a set of images showing their final parade from the Showgrounds, with this one being taken in The Square. Images from the Newth family album. The ...
Creator: Newth family
Place: Te Mare o Hine/The Square
Date: 1940
The Māori Battalion trained at the Palmerston North Showgrounds during World War Two. This is one of a set of images showing their final parade from the Showgrounds, with this one being taken in Cuba Street. It appears to be taken from the top of ...
Creator: Newth family
Place: Cuba Street
Date: 1940
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 14 February, 1959. "Training during the Freyberg High School's Barracks Week." Another photo associated with this article appears on the same day.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-02-14T00:00:00+00:00