Part of the 'Final Battle Campaign for Sick and Wounded Soldiers' fund raising procession outside the Soldier's Club which was built at the corner of Cuba and George Streets by the Patriotic Society in 1917, later known as Returned Servicemen Asso...
Creator: Allen Studios, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 1918
Senior non-commissioned officers of the 6th Manawatu Mounted Rifles at Foxton Camp. The 6th Mounted Rifles was formed on 17 March 1911. They were mobilised during the Great War as a squadron of the Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment.
Creator: S C Smith, Wellington
Place: Foxton
Date: 1928
On the back of the original photograph is written "To Mrs Spinks and family from Lance Corporal Dalton 13.2.17".
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1917
The Commanders were the resident band at the Army, Navy, and Air Force (ANA) Dance Hall (later the Ballroom Astoria, then George Street Ballroom). The well known band began life as the ‘The Revellers’ in 1943 and disbanded in 1960. Max Jordan and ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1946 to 1947
There was a week of events to celebrate Palmerston North being granted Borough status in 1877. Here, the Army salute the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr G. Tremaine. The Parade troop was made up of a detachment of the engineers, infantry and army s...
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 17, 1952
The Awapuni Racecourse was used as an army camp during the First World War. Note the men in military uniform among the group on the left.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
The New Zealand Medical Corp. had a camp at Awapuni Racecourse during World War One. Trenches were dug for training purposes.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1917
Canvas kit bags being manufactured for the Defence Department at Chas. Dahl's factory during the First World War. The man on the right is the factory foreman, Percival A Milverton.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, between The Square and Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1914
Alex was a flax worker of Waikanae, Shannon and Tokomaru prior to world war one. He was a brother of Bill and Tom Dalzell, well known "flaxies" and millers of the Manawatu. Alex died of influenza in England, 1919.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1913 to circa 1919
Captain H. Palmers was with the Manawatu Mounted Rifles (he was mentioned in their book as a Sergeant in 1906). He acted at the secretary for the group and was by all accounts an extremely energetic member.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1910
Edna Spillman served in the New Zealand army, in World War II, for four years. Part of her service, as seen here, was spent working at the Railways Office, booking free railway passes for servicemen and their families. Her boss was Captain Harold ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1944
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 Bert Malcolm on a motorcycle - the markings on the bike indicate that it is a Rudge Multi. Shortly after this picture was taken, he left for war service in Egypt and Palestine with the Wellington Mounted Rifles. After the war...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1916
Mauriceville West, a Scandinavian settlement in Wairarapa, sent 44 young men to World War One, of whom six were killed in action. Rasmus Peter Hansen and Inger Marie [Kjestrup] Hansen are far left, back row. Back Row: Rasmus Peter Hansen, Inger M...
Creator: Edward (Ted) Mattson
Place: Mauriceville West, Wairarapa
Date: 1915
A group of Army personel being entertained on stage by a band at Linton Camp.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Linton
Date: November 17, 1942
This image, showing an unidentified Captain, comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no i...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Date: 1910 to 1920
The Palmerston North cenotaph, constructed in the centre of The Square to commemorate those who died in World War One, was opened by the then Prime Minister Mr Gordon Coates. It was a replica of one in Folkstone, England. Standing speaking is Gord...
Creator: S R Shailer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 1926
This postcard comes from the Mackrell Archive. They came to be in possession of the Mackrell family by way of Huia Mackrell's wife, Doris Cammock (later Mrs Mackrell, of Woodville). They were sent by Doris' brother Frank while he was serving in th...
Creator: Frank Cammock
Date: April 13, 1917
Elsie Laing (centre), Matron of an RNZAF hospital somewhere in New Zealand during the Second World War. Elsie Laing was born 14 December 1890 and qualified as a nurse at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, England, in 1919. She served as a C/Sr in New Z...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939 to circa 1945
The Masterton Brass Band marches outside of the Club Hotel in Pahiatua.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Pahiatua, Tararua District
Date: 1940s
Issued by the Authority of the Director of National Services, this handbook gave information to those serving in the Women's Land Service. It included topics such are wages, accommodation, age limits, hours of work and holidays.
Creator:
Date: 1940
Ernest Davis (1901-1981) in army uniform and his mother, Harriet Davis, walking outside the Post Office, in The Square, Palmerston North. Ernie served in WWII, and soon after this photograph embarked for Italy. Ernie, was the son of James and Harr...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1942
From Archives New Zealand: On 16th July 1947 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, arrived in New Zealand to confer with the Government on defence m...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: 1947
Samuel Hooper Smith, aged 23, leaving for the Boer War.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1901
Will Chapman in army kit (centre, nearest camera) during family farewells on the day that he boarded the troopship SS Willochra bound for Suez. From September 1916 onward he served on the Western Front as a Driver in the Divisional ...
Creator: Unknown
Date: March 3, 1916
Postcard of soldiers exercising at the Army training camp at Awapuni Racecourse, during World War One. The postcard was sent 15 October 1915 to Miss Cable, 829 Cumberland Street, Dunedin, from 'Jim'.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
The Grammer family were early residents of Ashhurst. This album is one of several artefacts created during World War Two by Ron Grammer.
Creator: Ron Grammer
Date: 1939 to 1945
This group of army personel was taken in Ashhurst, it is thought they could all be related. During the Second World War many racecourses throughout New Zealand hosted Army groups.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1943
Anzac Day 2016 - 2000 flax poppies were woven by the community and placed around the War Memorial in The Square.
Creator:
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 2016
An unidentified group of army personnel. The uniformed gentleman far left is a Warrant Officer.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940s