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
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
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 October 1958: "Prior to the presentation of the first station badge at the R.N.Z.A.F. station at Ohakea this morning the Chief of the Air Staff (Air Vice Marshal M.E....
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea
Date: October 21, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 06 September 1958: "A firing squad sound a volley at the Kelvin Grove cemetery yesterday after the body of Corporal G.T. Walker had been laid to rest. Corporal Walker di...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: James Line, Palmerston North
Date: September 6, 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
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 April, 1959. "The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson, K.C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C., was the chief visitor to Ohakea yesterday in the ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ohakea
Date: 1959-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 February 1958, page 6: "With the Legion of Frontiersmen guards stiffly at the present arms position, Messrs. C.T. Flyger, the newly-elected Dominion president, and W....
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 10, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1958, page 10: "Some of the applicants for naval service being interviewed in the city today by the naval recruiting officer, Commander R.T. Hale, O.B.E., R.N.Z....
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 24, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6 August 1958, page 8: "Engineer instructors of the Regular Force who are undergoing a star classification course at Linton, at the School of Military Engineering, are s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton
Date: August 6, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6 August 1958, page 8: "Engineer instructors of the Regular Force who are undergoing a star classification course at Linton, at the School of Military Engineering, are s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton
Date: August 6, 1958