Home Gallery 8th Battalion, City of London (The Post Office Rifles)
During the mid-19th century an army regiment of 1,000 men was formed from employees and continued to recruit postal workers into the Territorial Force under the title '8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)'. During the First World War, the Post Office Rifles fought at Ypres and at Passchendaele, losing more than half of their fighting force at the Battle of Wurst Farm Ridge in September 1917.
2000s 150th Anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery (2006)
2000s Employee shareholders
1900s Tommy Flowers MBE (1905-1998)
1900s Violette Szabo (1921-1945)
1900s Letter from Dwight D Eisenhower thanking Royal Mail staff for their help in the run up to D-Day (22 June 1944)
1900s The Great Train Robbery