In 1851 the regiment returned to Barbados before moving on to Trinidad in 1852. In 1853 it returned to Barbados and then, in 1854, it moved to Jamaica where the regiment lost a large number of men from an epidemic of yellow fever. It returned home to England in 1857 and then spent a tour in Ireland from 1860 to 1863 when it was posted to India. It returned to England in 1875 before being posted to Ireland again in 1880.