Gurwood travelled on the Continent and then joined his Regiment for embarkation to England where they were quartered in Brighton and then in Eastbourne. He was extremely anxious to obtain promotion requesting both his superior Colonel Quentin and Sir Henry Torrens at Horse Guards to speak on his behalf to the Prince Regent who was the Colonel of the Regiment, but he was subject to the Prince's usual whims and changes of mind. He was finally told to put his case to the Prince Regent in the form of a written Memorial and was gazetted Major in 1817.