2017 Armistice Day Service Sheet
2017 Armistice Day Service Sheet.
Event held 11.11.2017 in The Square Palmerston North
Date: November 11, 2017
Unidentified Soldiers on Horseback
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
Unidentified Soldiers on Horseback
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
Awapuni Memorial Rededication
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Back Issues: The intrigue of 'Awapuni' and her wartime diary
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of newspaper reporter Nelle (Ellen) Margaret Scanlan. Using the pen name Awapuni, she wrote the weekly column "Palmerston Doings" from 1915 to 1921 in New Zealand F...
Creator: Val Burr
Date: April 13, 2024
Back Issues: Mock wars and stirring words at queen carnivals
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Fundraising to support the war effort was extensive from the start of World War 1. From 1915, Queen carnivals were held. These fundraising extravaganzas were competitions hel...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 6, 2024
Back Issues: Fear, riots and renamed streets
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. During World War I, anyone seen as linked to enemy countries was a target for hatred. Not even people born in New Zealand were immune. In the Manawatū, German immigrants, peop...
Creator: Val Burr
Place: Manawatū, Whanganui, Horowhenua
Date: March 25, 2023
"Floral Tribute to the Honoured Dead" - ANZAC
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 April 1958, page 8: "A section of the representatives of various organisations who paid tribute to the fallen during the wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial ye...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 26, 1958
Awapuni Memorial Rededication
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, who trained there ah...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Palmerston North Community Poppy Wreath - ANZAC Day 2016
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
Awapuni Racecourse Memorial
This is the memorial dedicated to the memory of officers and men of the New Zealand Medical Corps (1914-1918) who were trained the Awapuni Racecourse. It was erected in 1929. The memorial is a stone cairn fountain, inside a pool constructed in the...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930
Awapuni Memorial Rededication
The Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse was rededicated after its refurbishment, on 20 October 2016. The memorial was originally erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps, w...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Awapuni Memorial Restoration
A project got underway in 2014 to clean up and restore the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. This photograph shows some of the early work in clearing the site. The work was carried out by the 2nd Health Support Battalion of the ...
Creator: Evan Greensides, for the Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: September 15, 2014
Bert Malcolm on his Royal Ruby
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
Motor Cycle Racing, Awapuni Racecourse
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
27th New Zealand Mounted Rifles - Featherston M.C.
This mounted photograph shows the 27th New Zealand Mounted Rifles at Featherston M.C. Gilbert Edison Rose is shown third from left in the second to back row.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Featherston Camp
Date: March 1917
Rangiotu Camp, 1915
This photograph was found with other copied prints in the John Cleland Community Archive. The original photographer is unknown - these have been labelled (at a later date by Ian Matheson) Rangiotu Camp, 1915 based on the information found on the p...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rangiotu, Manawatu
Date: 1915
Rangiotu Camp, 1915
This photograph was found with other copied prints in the John Cleland Community Archive. The original photographer is unknown - these have been labelled (at a later date by Ian Matheson) Rangiotu Camp, 1915 based on the information found on the p...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rangiotu, Manawatu
Date: 1915
Awapuni Memorial Rededication
On parade is the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps Banner at the rededication of the Awapuni Memorial on 20 October 2016. The memorial was erected at the Race course in 1929, to commemorate the New Zealand Medical Corps who trained there ...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 20, 2016
Bulford Kiwi - Sling Camp, England
Originally called Sling Plantation due to the nearby forest, this camp was located beside the Bulford on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. New Zealand troops built wooden huts here after the beginning of the First World Wa...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Sling Camp, England
Date: circa 1916
Palmerston North War Memorial, The Square
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: circa 1937
Awapuni Memorial Restoration
A project got underway in 2014 to clean up and restore the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. This photograph shows some of the early work in clearing the site. The work was carried out by the 2nd Health Support Battalion of the ...
Creator: Evan Greensides, for the Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: September 15, 2014
Awapuni Memorial Restoration
A project got underway in 2014 to clean up and restore the Awapuni Memorial at the Palmerston North Racecourse. This photograph shows some of the workers who helped early on in clearing the site. The work was carried out by the 2nd Health Sup...
Creator: Evan Greensides, for the Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Awapuni Racecourse, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: September 15, 2014
Palmerston North War Memorial, The Square
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
Army Group
A group photograph of soldiers from World War 1. The soldiers appear to be wearing the iconic 'Lemon Squeezer' style hat, worn by the New Zealand Infantry Division.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
Northern Schleswig Liberation Celebration
The event celebrated the restoration of North Slesvig from Germany to Denmark following voting by its inhabitants. The Palmerston North event attracted around 400 Danish settlers and descendants of Danes from around New Zealand. See the 15 April 1...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 14, 1920
Patriotic Society's fund raising procession.
The Patriotic Society's fund raising procession entering Coleman Place from The Square. The Patriotic Society was created in 1916, during World War One, for fund raising and welfare purposes.
Creator: Charles Allen
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1918
Children Outside the Aokautere School Gates
Note the wreaths commemorating Anzac Day. Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 80.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere School, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
With Dr Martin (Palmerston North) at the Front
The front of this booklet reads, "With Dr Martin (Palmerston North) at the Front - with the Compliments of Collinson & Cunninghame, Ltd. Palmerston North". Dr Arthur Anderson Martin served in the South African Field Force 1901, British Expeditiona...
Creator: Collinson & Cunninghame Ltd.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1916
Armistice Day parade in Rongotea
Armistice Day celebrates the end of World War I and remembers those members of the armed forces who were killed during the war. Part of the parade is lined up outside the Rongotea Post Office.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: November 11, 1921
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