Regimental marches of the British Army Infantry; Military Provost Staff Corps - The Metropolitan; Normandy Veterans' Association - Normandy Veterans; Parachute Regiment - Ride of the Valkyries; 7th Prince of Wales' Division - God Bless the Prince of Wales; Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire - Ca Ira and The Yorkshire Lass; Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - The Farmer's Boy/The Soldiers of the Queen; Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps - Gray and Scarlet; Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service - QARNNS March; Queen's Royal Irish Hussars - St Patrick's Day, Berkeley's Dragoons and The Galloping 8th Hussars; Queen's Regiment - Soldiers of the
History of the British Army postal service Monarch and her/his ministers. They came into existence in the 1640s. They travelled on horseback and used the official Post Office packet services to cross over the Continent. A direct line can be drawn from today's Defence Couriers of the British Army to these Messengers. In 1743 the first distinctive post mark appeared on letters sent by British troops campaigning in Europe. The Thurn & Taxis Post, who processed the mail on behalf of the British army, endorsed it with a small circular stamp inscribed "AB" – Armee Britannique. Mr Sutton was appointed Postmaster to the Army in 1747, but