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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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The Post Office Rifles
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Note:
This
is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally
liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the
main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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1868.03.02 |
49th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps
seven coys raised with HQ at Charing Cross,
London, from employees of the Post Office (senior staff already serving
in 21st (Civil Service) RVC) |
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- A Company, formed
by the EC District
- B Company, formed
by the Inland Office
- C Company, formed
by the Newspapers and Money-Order offices
- D Company, formed
by the WC District
- E Company, formed
by the W, SW and S Districts
- F Company, formed
by the N and NW Districts
- G Company, formed
by the E and SE Districts
- H Company, raised
June 1869 by the SW District
- I Company, raised
July 1870 by the Telegraph Branch, expanded 1883 to 200 men in
A Division and B Division, also known as Field Telegraph Companies
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1876 |
K
Company formed from SE District staff,
and G Coy reduced to E District staff |
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1880.09.03 |
24th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps |
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1881.07.01 |
8th Volunteer
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade |
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1882.07.18 |
volunteers
formed and mobilised Army Postal
Corps to provide postal services for the Egypt
expedition (first and only overseas deployment of a volunteer unit
before 1900) |
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1884 |
volunteers
formed Field Telegraph Corps
in Royal Engineers Reserve |
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1889 |
battalion
came within boundaries of new County of London, formed from parts
of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey |
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1889 |
Field
Telegraph Corps absorbed as
L Company; Army Postal
Corps absorbed as M Company, known as
Field Telegraph Coys to mobilise as Army Post Office Corps when needed |
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1891.12 |
24th Middlesex
Volunteer Rifle Corps |
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1892 |
7th Volunteer
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade |
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more
companies raised |
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1908.04.01 |
8th (City of
London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
transferred to T.F. with HQ and coys at Bunhill
Row, Finsbury (less Field Telegraph Coys to form Postal
Section, Royal Engineers?) |
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- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
- E Company
- F Company
- G Company
- H Company
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1915.03 |
1/8th (City
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
renumbered on formation of 2/8th Battalion |
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1916.07.07 |
transferred
to the corps of The Rifle Brigade |
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1920.02.07 |
8th (City
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Bunhill Row, Finsbury, EC1 |
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- A Company at ?
- B Company at ?
- C Company at ?
- D Company at ?
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1921.12.31 |
absorbed by
7th (City of London)
Battalion, The London Regiment |
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History: |
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8th
Battalion City of London Regiment Post Office Rifles, by Martin
Girling |
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The
Post Office Rifles (Fovant Badges Society) |
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24th
Middlesex Rifles, by Simon Cuerden |
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The
London Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great
War) |
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The
London Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) |
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Deployment and War Service of Units: |
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1/8th
(City of London) Battalion [1914-1919?] |
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2/8th
(City of London) Battalion [1914-1918] |
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8th
(Reserve) (City of London) Battalion [1915-1919] |
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Biography
and Gallantry Awards: |
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Victoria
Crosses, by Michael Chapman (VC Reference) |
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John
Lowther du Plat Taylor, by Simon Fenwick (PCS Branch, REA) |
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Members
of 24th Middlesex RVC, by Edward de Santis. |
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Roll
of Honour, by Martin Girling |
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Associations,
Forums and Re-Enactors: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Museums,
Monuments, Memorials and Chapels: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Egypt 18821,
South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War (3 battalions): Festubert
1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18,
Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Bullecourt, Messines 1917, Ypres
1917, Menin Road, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, St. Quentin,
Bapaume 1918, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy,
Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18
1. awarded 1909 for service of 24th Middlesex RVC volunteers
in Army Postal Corps
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Record of Colours: |
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1868: grey;
facings: blue
1887: green: facings: blue |
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1876.08.16 |
Maj-Gen. HH
Francis, 1st Duke of Teck, GCB, GCVO, VD |
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1901.02.27 |
Col. John Lowther du Plat Taylor, CB, VD
[founder of 49th Mx RVC] |
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1904 |
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1912.07.19 |
Lt-Col. HH
Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladi,
2nd Duke of Teck, GCB, GCVO, CMG, ADC[Marquess of Cambridge] |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental record of the 24th Middlesex
(formerly 49th Middlesex) Post Office Volunteers from 1868 to 1896.
London : Spottiswoode, 1896. |
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Derviche-Jones, A.D. History of the
Post Office Rifles, 8th Battalion, City of London Regiment, 1914-1918.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1919. |
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Messenger, Charles. Terriers in the
trenches : the Post Office Rifles at war, 1914-1918. [Chippenham]
: Picton Pub., 1982. ISBN: 0902633821 |
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