Menu of the Christmas Day meal served to the Wellington Mounted Rifles troops serving in Egypt during World War One. From the archive of 'A F Batchelar'.

Creator:      Wellington Mounted Rifles
Date:          December 1914

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

A celebration to mark the end of World War One was held in Palmerston North on the 19th and 21st of July 1919. The 21st was 'Children's Day'. There was also a 'Service of Praise on 22 and 23 July at the Opera House.

Creator:      Palmerston North Borough Council (probably)
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1919

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

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

Gates to the Kelvin Grove Services Cemetery, commemorating World War One and World War Two.

Kelvin Grove Cemetery, at 118 James Line, Kelvin Grove, is Palmerston North's main cemetery, providing cremation and burial services to the city and its ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          118 James Line, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North
Date:          March 6, 2013

Second Floor Plan of the Soldiers' Club Building, dated 1916. Built on the corner of Cuba and George Streets for the Manawatu Patriotic Society and completed in 1917 to a design from the firm of L G West & Son. The building was used by the Returne...

Creator:      LG West & Son
Place:          Cuba Street
Date:          October 1, 1916

Alfred Bryant was killed in action on 28 May 1915, at 33 years of age. he was amember of the Wellington Mounted Rifles NZEF, serving in World War One. He is buried at Ari Burnu Cemetery at Anzac, Gallipoli in Turkey.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914

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

Clothes collected locally are being readied to be sent to troops overseas in World War One. amongst those packing the parcels in the Palmerston North Borough Council Chambers is Mrs J.A. Nash (Mayoress), second from left.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 1914

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

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A review of articles from the Manawatū Journal of History, Volume 15 (2019). The journal, published annually, contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatū are...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          August 31, 2019

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A review of articles from the Manawatū Journal of History, Volume 16 (2020). The journal, published annually, contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatū are...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 22, 2020

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 August 1960 "With the members of the New Zealand Medical Corps who were in camp at the Awapuni Racecourse during the First World War holding a reunion in Palmerston N...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1960-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 August 1960 "At the weekend, 150 members of the Field Ambulance, New Zealand Medical Corps, overseas and attached transport units of the 1914-18 War gathered in Palme...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Cuba and George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1960-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

This image was printed for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 August 1960 "With the members of the New Zealand Medical Corps who were in camp at the Awapuni Racecourse during the First World War holding a reunion in Palmerston...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

This image appeared in a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 August 1960. "With the members of the New Zealand Medical Corps who were in camp at the Awapuni Racecourse during the First World War holding a reunion in Palmerston No...

Creator:      
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1914 to 1918

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 August 1960 "With the members of the New Zealand Medical Corps who were in camp at the Awapuni Racecourse during the First World War holding a reunion in Palmerston N...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1960-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

A soldier dressed in a replica uniform of the New Zealand Medical Corps at the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. It was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originall...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          October 20, 2016

This plane was a 90hp de Havilland aircraft, owned by the Walsh brothers of Kohimarama, Auckland and piloted by 23 year old Captain Richard Russell. It landed in a farm paddock on the corner of Gillespies Line and Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenu...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 31, 1920

ANZAC Day Memorial Crosses which were set up in The Square for the 2015 ceremonies. Each cross represented the name of an individual upon the Cenotaph, with 507 installed altogether. The 2015 ceremony, marking the 100th anniversary of the start of...

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          The Square
Date:          April 23, 2015

Mayor Grant Smith asked that the traditional ANZAC Day poppy wreath be a community created object in 2016. Hundreds of knitted, felted and crocheted poppies were donated to the project and hand-stitched on to the wreath.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 2016

A group of nine young soldiers, outside an army tent, during World War One. "J" Battery was a local Territorial Battery formed in 1911. Bill Davey is front row centre.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1918

Two pieces of differing information have been presented about this image.

1. That the women are campaigners, dressed as Red Cross nurses to raise money during World War One. From left: Unknown; Elizabeth Macaulay (later Thompson); Sara Macaulay (...

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1918

The New Zealand Poppy Places Trust has been established to develop, promote, and oversee a nation-wide project to commemorate and recognise as part of the heritage of New Zealanders, the participation of New Zealand in military conflicts and milit...

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          ANZAC Park, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1, 2014

This photograph shows officers from the New Zealand Medical Corps. It is thought to have been taken at Awapuni around the time of World War One. Awapuni Racecourse was the home of the NZ Medical Corp during the First World War years.

Creator:      Charles Allen
Place:          Racecourse Road, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1919

This Palmerston North Borough roll of honour lists those killed in service during the First World War (1914-1919). It comes from the Perrin Papers, and includes Charles Perrin who was killed when troopship HMS Marquette sank in 1915.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1919

"Certificate of the services in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces of Gunner Ludolph Edwin Wynn Wes. 2/372. J Battery NZFA"

Wynn West, as he was known, only served 15 days in camp in Palmerston North before dying of pneumonia on 26 August 1914...

Creator:      New Zealand Government
Place:          New Zealand
Date:          circa 1914

The Griffith family Buick car decorated as a "Dove of Peace" for the peace procession held to celebrate the end of World War One. These celebrations were held on July 19-21 1919 in Palmerston North. On Saturday the 19th of July at 9.30 am a 21 Gun...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1919