to 135th Infantry Brigade, 45th Infantry Division in 1942. The 7th Wiltshires would not see active service during the war and remained in the United Kingdom, supplying the front-line units with trained infantrymen and was apparently disbanded in August 1944, sending a huge draft of replacements to the 4th and 5th battalions. Post-war and amalgamation As part of Britain's post-war reduction, each infantry regiment was required to reduce its strength by one battalion. In the case of the Wiltshire Regiment, this meant amalgamating the 1st and 2nd battalions. This was done on 10 January 1949, while the regiment was part of the British Army of the Rhine. For the remainder of its existence, the Wiltshires would remain a one battalion regiment. After the end of the Second World War, the Wiltshire regiment would add one more campaign to its list. Although initially earmarked to be sent to Malaya during the Emergency, the Wilt's orders were changed en route and they joined the Hong Kong garrison in 1950. After returning home to Britain in 1953, the Wilts were ready for foreign service once more. The Wilts final campaign as an independent regiment came in 1956, when it deployed to Cyprus as reinforcements for the British garrison during the Cyprus Emergency. The battalion, deployed in response to EOKA attacks which escalated in 1955, remained on Cyprus until its amalgamation in 1959. The Wiltshire Regiment would be amalgamated with The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) to form The Duke Of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) on 9 June 1959. The ceremony took place at Albany Barracks, Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight. Regimental museum The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum is based in Salisbury. Battle honours The regiment's battle honours were as follows: Seven Years' War: Louisburg 1758 (Awarded 1910) Peninsula War: Nive; Peninsula First Sikh War 1845–1846: Ferozeshah 1st Maori War, New Zealand 1845–1847: New Zealand Crimean War 1854–1856: Sevastopol Second China War 1856-60: Pekin 1860 South Africa and the Zulu War 1877–79: South Africa 1879 Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902: South Africa 1900–1902 The Great War 1914–1918: Mons; Messines 1914, 1917, 1918; Ypres 1914, 1917; Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917; Bapaume 1918; Macedonia 1915–18; Gallipoli 1915–16; Palestine 1917–18; Baghdad. Le Cateau; Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914, 1918; La Bassée 1914; Armentières 1914; Langemarck 1914; Nonne Bosschen; Neuve Chapelle; Aubers; Festubert 1915; Loos; Albert 1916, 1918; Pozières; Le Transloy;