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
This portrait postcard was produced by Anderson's Studio, Palmerston North, which was established by the Norwegian-born artist and photographer Harold Anderson (1869-1926). Further research is needed to establish the identity of "Bugler Will," alt...
Creator: Anderson's Studio, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915 to 1918
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, is presumed t...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Gallipoli
Date: July 1, 1915
Booklet written to commemorate the golden jubilee of Tiritea School, now Turitea School. Included is the beginning of European settlement, the establishment of the Fitzherbert Road Board and a description of early farming activity. The economic de...
Creator: V.A. Christensen
Place: Turitea
Date: 1945
Alfred Henry Bryant attended Fitzherbert East School, Aokautere. He subsequently served in the First World War and was killed in action at Gallipoli on 28 May 1915.
This photograph was reproduced in the book Fitzherbert East Aokautere: School and ...
Date: circa 1914
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
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
Awapuni Racecourse 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. Henry Ward is seated front row, far right.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Awapuni
Date: 1917
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, was sent from...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Egypt
Date: April 30, 1915
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of dancer and singer George Robert WATTS (1885-1947). His stage name was Professor Owen Cardston. Cardston entertained in New Zealand and overseas, working with comm...
Creator: Russell and Philip Poole
Date: November 18, 2023
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
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Two World War 1 soldiers from Bunnythorpe, Len and Pat Argyle, wrote letters home to their parents from the war front.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 24, 2021
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 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
Awapuni Racecourse 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.
Reverse of postcard reads:
To Eva
From Henry with Love.
July 25th, 1917.
Creator: unknown
Place: Awapuni
Date: July 25, 1917
‘Killed in Action’, a pamphlet written by Rutherford Waddell M.A., D.D. Published 1919.
A religious tract, which considers the question of whether a soldier "killed in action" will be saved, regardless of a lack of Christian faith. The booklet or...
Creator: Rutherford Waddell
Date: 1919
Private Frederick John Eastwood (31980), served with the Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion. He died of wounds while a prisoner of war on 24 June 1917 and is buried in the Mouvaux New Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.
Date: circa July 1917
Private Alfred Joseph (Joe) Marshall served with the New Zealand Medical Corps including on board the Hospital Ship Maheno. This postcard depicts a woman in traditional Maltese dress. The inscription reads: "On Active Service 3/2784
A J Marsh...
Date: February 1, 1917
A postcard featuring a hand-drawn sketch of a village in France surrounded by trees. It was written by Henry Ward, who served with the New Zealand Medical Corps, No. 3 Field Ambulance, from March 1917 to March 1919, to Eva Eastwood, who he married...
Creator: Henry Ward
Place: France
Date: 1917 to 1919
A group of about 25 recruits pose in and beside a trench during a training exercise as the Awapuni Racecourse, which 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 M...
Date: September 1918
A group of about 35 recruits pose in the grandstand of 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 inscripti...
Date: September 1918
A group of about 30 recruits pose with enamel cups, the track of the Awapuni Racecourse is visible in the background. 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 Zea...
Date: September 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 about 30 recruits sit in the grandstand of 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.
Date: circa 1918
A group of about 35 recruits are shown with shovels and sandbags while digging a trench 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 Zealan...
Date: circa 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