Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th June 2025. Part 3 of 4.  While in the NZ Navy, before Waitangi Day, he was on a small ship in the Bay of Islands which hosted the governor general, Lord Cobham, and his family on fishing trips the...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 24, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th June 2025. Part 2 of 4. Was in NZ Navy ship The Royalist during the Suez crisis but was pulled out before the end. Many of the crew were married with family in New Zealand. Travelled through t...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 17, 2025

Two figures in naval uniform stand alongside two women dressed in wedding attire. Elmar Studio wedding portraits are usually composed with the bride and groom in the centre of the photograph, flanked on either side by the bridesmaid and groomsman.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 December 1962, "The top photograph [shown] shows the party of 27 ratings and two officers from the French frigate Francis Garnier which berthed in Wellington yesterda...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 11, 1962

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 August 1960 "Some of those who attended the ex-navalmen's annual dinner and smoke concert held on Saturday night are (from the left): Messrs A.E. Haynes, N.L. Calvert...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North

This image was not taken published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 January, 1964. [Royal New Zealand divers test equipment at Centennial Lake for the Palmerston North Carnival of the Lake." See also: 2017N_2017-20_018312, 2017N_2017-...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was not taken published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 January, 1964. [Royal New Zealand divers test equipment at Centennial Lake for the Palmerston North Carnival of the Lake." See also: 2017N_2017-20_018311, 2017N_2017-...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 January, 1964. "Terry Jenkins, aged eight (above), calls the boy in the diver's helmet, Stephen Phillips, aged 12 (left), on a communications link set up at the Carni...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 January, 1964. "Terry Jenkins, aged eight (above), calls the boy in the diver's helmet, Stephen Phillips, aged 12 (left), on a communications link set up at the Carni...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 January, 1964. "Two of the five Royal New Zealand divers testing equipment at Centennial Lake. The picture shows one skin diver jumping into the water while another l...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1958: "These boys are filling an examination sheet during their naval recruiting interview in the city this morning. In the background, Lieutenant R.B. Hicks,...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 29, 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 not taken published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 January, 1964. [Royal New Zealand divers test equipment at Centennial Lake for the Palmerston North Carnival of the Lake." See also: 2017N_2017-20_018311, 2017N_2017-...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

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 06 March 1961 "A party of 30 Canadian sailors, several of whom are pictured here, arrived in Palmerston North on Saturday from Wellington. The picture was taken at the W...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

This image was not taken published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 January, 1964. [Royal New Zealand divers test equipment at Centennial Lake for the Palmerston North Carnival of the Lake." See also: 2017N_2017-20_018312, 2017N_2017-...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hokowhitu, Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 December 1962, "The top photograph shows the party of 27 ratings and two officers from the French frigate Francis Garnier which berthed in Wellington yesterday and sa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 11, 1962

Footage of New Zealand army, navy and air force personal during WWII, in New Zealand, Egypt and the Pacific.

16mm film. Length: 4 minutes, 35 seconds. Sepia. Sound of movie projector running.

Creator:      NZ National Film Unit
Date:          1940 to 1945

This military chronology was created by the Palmerston North City Council, to provide a timeline of events in the history of Palmerston North that have a military connection. These activities have been verified to the best of the author's ability,...

Creator:      Leanne Hickman, for PNCC
Date:          2017

Stores being unloaded from the frigate by Iroquois helicopter. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Linton Army Camp, with some pe...

Creator:      H E Chamberlain
Place:          Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date:          September 1977

Attendees of military exercise disembarking from a naval frigate at Great Barrier Island. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Li...

Creator:      H E Chamberlain
Place:          Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date:          September 1977

Attendees of the military exercise wait aboard the naval frigate for their 'tot of rum'. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Lint...

Creator:      H E Chamberlain
Place:          Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date:          1977

Attendees of the exercise 'dressing the ship' as it sails past the signalling station. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Linton...

Creator:      H E Chamberlain
Place:          Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date:          September 1977

Memo dated 29 May 1942 outlining the conditions of serivce for the Women’s Royal Naval Service (New Zealand).

Creator:      Women's Royal Naval Service (New Zealand)
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 29, 1942

H.M.S Ramilles in Wellington Harbour. The battleship, as part of the British Home Fleet, arrived in New Zealand Christmas 1939, and from 6 January to 12 February, 1940 she escorted the big troop ships carrying the First Echelon of the Second New Z...

Date:          1940

A large group of young, uniformed, American sailors and others seated at tables in C M Ross Co. Ltd Tearooms. Lenard Alkire is seated second from the front, on the right hand side of the foreground table (ringed).

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940