Cap Badge - 8th City of London - "Post Office Rifles" This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $25.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. With the creation of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, the part-time Volunteer Force infantry artillery and engineer units and Yeomanry (mounted) regiments from across the country together into a single Territorial Force in 1908. As a result of this, the 24th Middlesex became the 8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). The Post Office Rifles served with distinction in the Great War. They arrived in France on 18 March 1915. By the end of the war, 1,800 men from the Post Office Rifles would be dead and 4,500 more would be wounded. After the outbreak of the war, the existing units of the Territorial Force each formed duplicate (or "second line") units. The existing Post Office Rifles was redesignated as the 1/8th Battalion, London Regiment when a second Post Office Rifles battalion, the 2/8th Londons, was formed in September 1914. In 1915 a third line battalion, the 3/8th was formed. The battle honours awarded to the 8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) were: 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, Épehy, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915–'18 Further reorganisations took place after World War I. Many saw these changes as a dilution of the battalion's Post Office identity. Included in these reorganisations was the amalgamation of the 8th Battalion with the non-Post Office 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment in 1921, forming the 7th London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). In 1935, it was converted from infantry to the searchlight role as the 32nd (7th City of London) Anti-aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, and the 'Post Office Rifles' name was finally dropped.