Engineer Corps Memorial Centre

The Engineering Corps Memorial Centre is a museum, library and chapel complex placed at Linton Military Camp, south of Palmerston North, New Zealand. The centre makes a speciality of the preservation of statistics and historical past of the Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers. In January 1964, the RNZE Corps Committee commenced out out proposals for a Corps Memorial Centre inner Linton Camp, in which the RNZE modified into the primary Corps in house. Colonel Andrew Murray, Colonel Commandant at the time, Major George Bunce and Major H.I. Dowrick were concerned in discussing and developing the idea.

The destiny web site of the centre have come to be surveyed through Majors Eddie Farnell and Charles Kibblewhite and through May 1968 Dudley Roy, RNZE veteran and architect, had preliminary plans drawn up. The museum consists of collections which incorporates badges, medals, currencies, tool, maps, memorabilia, indicates, references, reviews, uniforms, conflict art, and many others. The collections are displayed outlining the chronology of the Corps, described through manner of its particular missions and worldwide conflicts.