Wooden war memorial with a carved Met badge and gilt lettering.

Blue booklet cover with a Met helmet plate in black and white and 'The Metropolitan Police At War / London H.M. Stationery Office 1947 Price 2s. 6d. net' in white.

Two rows of Met Mounted Branch officers holding their lances being inspected outside a door of Westminster Abbey by George VI, his wife Queen Elizabeth, and Commissioner Sir Harold Scott. Above, the headline 'THE KING UNVEILS POLICE MEMORIAL'.

War memorials sprang up across the Met's buildings post-war (such as this one now on loan from our collection to Charing Cross), a booklet was published in 1947 and a roll of honour for both world wars was inaugurated at @westminsterabbey.bsky.social in 1950. #VEDay #VEDay80 #VEDay2025 #MetAtWar

The Met's involvement in the Victory Parade thirteen months after #VEDay drew praise not only from Commissioner Sir Harold Scott but also from Attlee's Home Secretary James Chuter Ede and George VI's mother Queen Mary. #VEDay2025 #VEDay80 #PoliceOrders #MetAtWar

Children gathered round a long table in the street, probably a VE or VJ Day street party, with a Met Mounted Branch officer on his horse in the right background.

All right, who invited the horse? #VEDay #VEDay80 #MetAtWar

Publication of Martin's letter of 9th May, stating Martin stating that Churchill had seen the police arrangements from his own car and that "Considering their reduced numbers, the police had to cope with a formidable task in handling such large and enthusiastic crowds".

Three days after #VEDay, #PoliceOrders featured a letter from John Miller Martin, Winston Churchill's Private Secretary, passing on the PM's thanks for the "conspicuous success" of the "admirable police arrangements" on VE Day and the day after. #VEDay80 #MetAtWar #VEDay2025

The first evidence in #PoliceOrders of Met preparations for #VEDay is this leave cancellation four days earlier. #WWII #MetAtWar #VEDay80 #VEDay2025

Police Orders for 8th May gave no clue of the momentous event that day (image 1), but a special one was also issued that day giving the full text of Home Secretary Herbert Morrison's address to all English and Welsh police forces (image 2). #PoliceOrders #MetAtWar #VEDay2025 #VEDay #VEDay80

Black and white poster banning the sale of spiritous liquors in Met canteens but allowing the sale of cider and malt liquor at certain times on weekdays, Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday on Met premises only to War Reserve Constables, members of the Pensioner Reserve, full-time special constables and regular police officers at any time, and to part-time specials and Met "ancillaries" whilst on duty or attending a recognised reunion or meeting. This was also expanded to messengers, station cleaners, motor car drivers, electricians and other civil staff "at Stations (or at Lambeth)" if they had to take a refreshment break there. The sale of dry goods was limited to civil staff, regular officers, members of the Pensioner Reserve and (if they were in attached or adjacent married quarters) officers' family members. Observance of these regulations and those for alcohol were both the responsibility of the station's Station Officer or the officer in charge of the accommodation.

In February 1941 Commissioner Philip Game signed off on these regulations for selling, supplying and consuming intoxicating liquor and "commodities" in Met canteens ... #ArchiveFoodAndDrink #Archive30 #Easter #Easter2025 #WWII #VEDay80 #MetAtWar #GoodFriday