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Memory Lane - "Kiwi voices from behind the wire"

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan was thrown into a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, he started a weekly newspaper called The Tiki Times. Galli...

Creator:      Tina White
Date:          April 24, 2010

Back Issues: A man for all seasons

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan (1908-1984) was imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war coal mining labour camp in Poland during World War II, he started a weekly news...

Creator:      Murray Brown
Date:          August 31, 2024

Churchills remarks on Prisoner of war Life

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

"Ive got to saddle my dream"

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

"NightingaleValley"

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

"NightingaleWaltz"

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

"Do not leave me" and another verse

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

"Myself"

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

"Forty dollars a week"

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

Poem "If"

Verses and songs written by Ron Grammer while in a Prisoner of War camp in Italy during World War Two.

Creator:      Grammer family
Date:          1940s

Letter from T. A. Grammer to Private Ron Grammer, prisoner of war in Italy, and reply

This letter was written by Mr Tom A. Grammer to his son Ronald Grammer when he was a prisoner of war in Italy, 1942. The second page contains a reply from Ron.

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contai...

Creator:      Thomas (Tom) Grammer
Place:          Bainesse
Date:          1942

Letter to Ron Grammer in Bainesse

Letter from a soldier serving overseas during World War Two, to Ron Grammer. Ron Grammer served in WWII and was a prisoner of war in Italy during 1942 - 1943. When liberated he returned to New Zealand.

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst resid...

Place:          Bainesse
Date:          1944

Letter to Mr. T. A. Grammer from Ron Grammer from Italy

This letter is from Private Ron Grammer while a prisoner of war in Italy, 1942-1943, during World War Two.

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the...

Creator:      Ronald Grammer
Place:          Italy
Date:          August 22, 1942

Bvono Per Lire Venti

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Place:          Italy

Card to mark off attendance at meals written in Italian

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served ...

Place:          Italy

Ron Grammer's Christmas biscuits wrapper

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      Ronald Grammer
Place:          Bardia, Italy
Date:          1942

Bvono Per Lire Dieci

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      
Place:          Italy

Christmas 1942 booklet from the Vatican Picture Gallery

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      Ron Grammer
Place:          Tuturana Prisoner of War Camp, Southern Italy
Date:          1942

Letter from Ronald Grammer to his father

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      Ronald Grammer
Place:          No. 1 Labour Camp, Italy
Date:          1943

Red Cross Xmas parcel content list

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      Ronald Grammer
Place:          Tutarana, Italy
Date:          1943

Postcard for war prisoners sent by Ron Grammer

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served i...

Creator:      Ronald Grammer
Place:          Italy
Date:          1940s

Memoirs of World War II, by Trevor Coe

Memoirs of World War II, written by Trevor Coe. Trevor was born in Dannevirke and lived in Woodville before serving in the New Zealand Army. His diary includes his travel overseas, the Battle of Crete, life as a POW (Prisoner of War) and returning...

Creator:      Trevor Coe

Letter from Ron Grammer to father T. A. Grammer

The Grammer family were early Ashhurst residents and the Grammer Family archive contains family information from 1868. Ron Grammer was the son of Tom Grammer and the family lived in Bainesse, close to Palmerston North. Private Ron Grammer served ...

Creator:      Ronald Grammer
Place:          Transit 85. PM3450, Italy (Prisoner of war camp)
Date:          1943

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