 The regiment was posted to Ireland in 1827 and then embarked for Barbados in 1831 although eleven men were killed in a hurricane on the way.The regiment was at Barbados until 1833 when it moved to Antigua; it transferred St Lucia in 1835 and back to Barbados in 1837.It then moved on to North America arriving in Nova Scotia in 1838 and New Brunswick in 1839 before returning to Ireland in 1842.