1878.
On 11th November telegraphic instructions were received at Karachi for the regiment to be in readiness for field-service in Upper Sind.
1879.
On 12th December, invalids, women, and children were sent, under Lieutenant Bell, viâ Bombay to Ahmednagar, and on 21st December the head-quarters (five companies), under Colonel T. S. Brown, proceeded on service to Sukkur, where on 5th January, 1879, they were joined by the three companies from Hyderabad, and on 30th January by a detachment from home. Of this draft 83 men came from the linked battalion (86th Foot).
The strength at Sukkur was then—20 officers, 41 sergeants, 15 drummers, and 779 men.
The regiment was encamped about 1½ miles south of Sukkur on the bank of the Indus.
The regiment left Sukkur, by detachments, between 20th February and 5th March, and returned by rail to Karachi, and was encamped on the Maidan.
On 13th March the regiment, under Colonel Brown, embarked on the I.G.S.’s Tenasserim and Czarewitch, and proceeded to Vingorla, where the party from Ahmednagar joined it, and marched by easy marches to Belgaum. One company was quartered in the fort and the remainder in barracks.
On 29th September, Colonel Brown was appointed to the Brigade Staff to command Sind District, and was succeeded in the command by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Meurant.
1880.