a reserve battalion serving in 213th Infantry Brigade, originally created in 1939 as a 2nd Line duplicate of the 5th It spent the rest of the war as a training battalion, assigned to the 45th Infantry Brigade, which was initially part of the 80th Infantry (Reserve) Division and then the 38th Infantry (Reserve) Division. Hostilities-only The 50th (Holding) Battalion was raised in June 1940. In October, it was redesignated as the 9th Battalion and was assigned to the 225th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home). Post-war and amalgamation In 1945, the 1st Battalion formed part of the force sent to disarm the German occupiers of Norway, moving on to become part of the Allied Occupation Force in Trieste. In 1947, it moved to Somaliland and in 1947 to Palestine, returning to the UK in 1950. The 2nd Battalion returned to England in 1946. On 28 October 1950, the two regular battalions were formally amalgamated into a single 1st Battalion. In 1951, the battalion moved to Egypt and in 1955 to Germany, where it remained for the rest of its existence. In July 1957, the Defence White Paper outlined a substantial reduction in the size of the British Army, with a number of regiments being amalgamated. The Border Regiment was amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) to form the King's Own Royal Border Regiment on 1 October 1959. Regimental museum The Border Regiment and its successors have a gallery at Cumbria's Museum of Military Life in Alma Block, Carlisle Castle. Battle honours The regiment's battle honours were as follows: Early Wars Havannah, St. Lucia 1778, Albuhera, Arroyo dos Molinos, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Lucknow, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899–1902, Afghanistan 1919 First World War Ypres 1914, '15, '17, '18, Langemark 1914, '17, Somme 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Cambrai 1917, '18, Lys, France and Flanders 1914–18, Vittorio Veneto 1918, Macedonia 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16 Second World War Dunkirk 1940, Arnhem 1944, North West Europe 1940 '44, Tobruk 1941, Landing in Sicily, Imphal, Myinmu Bridgehead, Meiktila, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943–5 Regimental Colonels Regimental Colonels were: 1881–1889: (1st Bn.) Gen. Alexander Maxwell, CB 1881–1903: (2nd Bn.) Gen. Sir Henry Charles Barnston Daubeney, GCB 1889–1897: (1st Bn.) Gen. Sir Richard Denis Kelly, KCB 1903–1909: Lt-Gen. Sir Robert Hume, GCB 1909–1919: Maj-Gen. William John Chads, CB 1915–1923: Gen. Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton, GCB, KCVO 1923–1936: Maj-Gen. Ewen George Sinclair-Maclagan, CB,