Terrace End Cemetery in Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui

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Get directions Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand

Coordinates: -40.34272, 175.64332
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The cemetery is in Napier Road, Palmerston North.

The Medical Corps Reinforcement Camp was established at Awapuni, on the Manawatu race-course, two miles from Palmerston North. Twenty-three (23) burials took place associated with that Camp during World War One. A few more more took place later, during World War Two.

Cemetery Transcripts from the NZ Genealogy Society via Ancestry.com indicate in the introductory notes that there were a number of reinterments from Public Reserves to "Denominational" blocks and that there will be 2 burial records for these. If you have an Ancestry account you can validate this here:
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The Public Reserves were used for pauper graves and stillbirths, and it looks like it was not possible to erect a headstone unless the grave was paid for. This may have been an incentive to ditch the pauper burial in favour of a denominational burial with a headstone. (If you have to pay for a plot, you may as well have it where you want it!) There may also have been shame associated with pauper burials.