Engineer Corps Memorial Centre

The Engineer Corps Memorial Centre (ECMC) is a museum, library and chapel complex located at Linton Military Camp, south of Palmerston North, New Zealand.

[2] The future site of the centre was surveyed by Majors Eddie Farnell and Charles Kibblewhite and by May 1968 Dudley Roy, RNZE veteran and architect, had preliminary plans drawn up.

Several options were considered for the museum including converting an old army cookhouse and mess hall from the wartime establishment facilities within Linton Camp.

The collections are displayed outlining the chronology of the Corps, defined by its unique missions and global conflicts since the early NZ Wars.

[1] Several artifact exhibitions demonstrate the use and the range of roles that the Royal New Zealand Engineers had including, communications, calculations, surveying, horizontal and vertical construction, design, bridging, demolitions, water supply, improvised explosive devices and booby traps, mine warfare, field defences, postal and courier and so on.

It was suggested that the Engineer Corps Memorial Association (ECMA - the precursor to the RNZE CT) might be interested in assisting with the removal and relocation/re-erection of the church in Linton Camp.

The church was dismantled at Makotuku and transported in parts to Linton Camp, where it was rebuilt, led by Sgt Murray Holt as task foreman.

A special parade and service was held in 1989, to commemorate the centenary of the church, attended by members of the Makotuku community and the Corps of RNZE and other dignitaries and guests.

World War 1 Tunnellers Display
ECMC displays and exhibits
RNZE Chapel interior