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

Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 24th October 2023. Part 1 of 2. Career as a pharmacist. In Dagenham until 26 (1962). Young child in WWII. Memories of the blitz, DC3s towing gliders, Morrison shelter, Anderson shelter, V1s, V2s, rationing. Po...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Date:          October 24, 2023

This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.

The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...

Creator:      Untold Stories Project
Date:          2024

This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.

The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...

Creator:      Untold Stories Project
Date:          2024

This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.

The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...

Creator:      Untold Stories Project
Date:          2024

This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.

The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...

Creator:      Untold Stories Project
Date:          2024

This register for the Palmerston North Municipal Opera House and Coronation Hall records bookings from 1940 until 1945, for performances, meetings and the activities of community groups. During the Second World War, these venues were also used to ...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council, Treasurer's Department
Date:          November 1940 to October 1945

This register for the Palmerston North Municipal Opera House and Coronation Hall records bookings from 1935 until 1940, for performances, meetings and the activities of community groups. The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built ...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council, Treasurer's Department
Date:          October 1935 to October 1940

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Creator:      Royal New Zealand Airforce
Date:          1944

Japan surrendered to the allies of World War II on 15 August 1945. Immediately schools and businesses in Palmerston North were closed and celebrations, many informal, began. A thanksgiving service was held that afternoon, followed by a victory par...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          August 16, 1945

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Māori Battalion trains at the Palmerston North showgrounds in 1940.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 22, 2006

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

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. From 1941, lighting restrictions were put in place in Palmerston North and elsewhere. Under the Emergency Precautions Scheme, street lights, shops, factories, offices, vehicle...

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          New Zealand
Date:          April 20, 2024

This documentary accompanied an exhibition of the same name held at Square Edge in June 2024.

The Untold Stories Project's desire for the future of this project is to inspire and help other descendants of Displaced Persons to research and write ...

Creator:      Untold Stories Project
Date:          2024

This photograph shows Bernard Cox in uniform, taken while he was stationed in Rome during WWII.He (1905-1970) was a well known Palmerston North architect. He was born in Dunedin where he studied architecture, before leaving to study and work in th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rome
Date:          November 20, 1944

Bernard Cox (1905-1970) a well known Palmerston North architect. He was born in Dunedin where he studied architecture, before leaving to study and work in the USA and Canada in 1928. Bernard returned to New Zealand, settling in Palmerston North in...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 1946

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Māori Battalion trains at the Palmerston North showgrounds in 1940. Abridged from original article, 22 April 2006.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 21, 2006

Tiger was a Great Dane belonging to Captain Harding Waipuke Leaf (Ngā Puhi), of the Māori Battalion. Harding and Tiger trained at the Palmerston North Showgrounds between January and May of 1940. The images were taken by Keith Collinson, of the fa...

Creator:      Keith Collinson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of the dog Tiger, a great dane, mascot of the Māori Battalion during World War 2. Tiger was the companion dog of Captain Harding Waipuke Leaf (Ngā Puhi). Tiger staye...

Creator:      Tracey Armstrong
Place:          
Date:          September 16, 2023

This image was taken by Keith Collinson, of the family who owned the Collinson & Cunninghame's department store. He was a Sergeant based in the Records Department at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. The Māori Battalion trained at the Showgrounds ...

Creator:      Keith Collinson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940

This image was taken by Keith Collinson, of the family who owned the Collinson & Cunninghame's department store. He was a Sergeant based in the Records Department at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. The Māori Battalion trained at the Showgrounds ...

Creator:      Keith Collinson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940

This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 2, April 1988 with the caption, "Two-year-old Christina Koot has a final cuddle with adoptive mother Bertha Zurcher." Bertha Zurcher worked in Wellington Hospital during World War Two. After ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 1988

Staff from G. Bramall & Co, manufacturers of waterproof clothing, including 'Bramac' rainwear. The company employed women during the second world war and manufactured school uniform raincoats for nearly fifty years before closing in August 1981. E...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s

Staff from G. Bramall & Co, manufacturers of waterproof clothing, including 'Bramac' rainwear. The company manufactured school uniform raincoats for nearly fifty years before closing in August 1981. Eleven employees, many of whom had worked for th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Taonui Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1945

This memorial and reserve behind it commemorates local soldiers who lost their lives during World War Two. The memorial is located on Lawton Road, behind the old school on Milson Line between Feilding and Palmerston North.

The plaque rea...

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          Te Arakura
Date:          May 15, 2021

This WWII era portrait has the name "Gordon Dilks" written on the back in pencil. It is thought he is Gordon Beresford Dilks (1922-2011), service number 443771. He served in the New Zealand Army in the Armoured Brigade, Second New Zealand Expediti...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1939 to 1945

Shown here is a display put up by "The Times" newspaper asking for donations of food to help keep Britain fed in the time during and after World War Two. “Tin and a Sixpence" refers to a tin for the fundraising and sixpence for a cup of tea and th...

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

This photograph shows the 75th Squadron Reunion held at Ohakea Base. Squadron leader John Grubb, left, who piloted a no. 75 Squadron Stirling from June 1943 to January 1944, talks with Ken Hazlett, a wireless operator at that time. They both serv...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ohakea, Bulls, Rangitikei Region
Date:          March 17, 1980