Post Office Rifles

49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Corps (Post Office Rifles)
24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Post Office Rifles)
8th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Cooper King11
24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Post Office Rifles) in 1895
Active1868–1921
Country United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Army
TypeInfantry
SizeBattalion
Part ofLondon Regiment
Garrison/HQBunhill Row drill hall

The Post Office Rifles was a unit of the British Army formed in 1868 from volunteers as part of the Volunteer Force, which later became the Territorial Force (and later the Territorial Army). The unit evolved several times until 1935, after which the name was lost during one of many reorganisations.[1]

  1. ^ Lord, Cliff; Watson, Graham (2004). Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Histories of the Corps (1920–2001) and Its Antecedents. Helion & Company Limited. pp. 383–385. ISBN 978-1-874622-92-5.