The Eighty-seventh regiment was augmented by a second battalion, which, with seven other regiments, was appointed to receive men raised in Ireland under the act of the 14th of July 1804; the men raised in the counties of Tipperary, Galway, and Clare, were allotted to the Eighty-seventh regiment; the assembling quarter of the second battalion was appointed at Frome in Somersetshire, and the battalion was placed on the establishment of the army, from the 25th of December 1804, at six hundred rank and file, which was augmented in the following year to eight hundred, and in the year 1807 to one thousand rank and file, and continued at that number to December 1814, when it was reduced to eight hundred, and from December 1815 to six hundred rank and file.
1805.
The second battalion marched from Frome to Bristol in March 1805, and embarked for Ireland.
1806.
On the 27th of October 1806 the battalion, consisting of twenty-nine serjeants, nine drummers, and five hundred and sixty-eight rank and file, embarked from Ireland for England.
1807.
On the 27th of April 1807 the battalion embarked at Plymouth, and proceeded to Guernsey.
The following report was made to Lieut.-General Sir John Doyle, Bart., commanding the troops at Guernsey, by Brigadier-General John Fraser, after his inspection of the second battalion of the Eighty-seventh regiment.
“Guernsey, 30th June 1807.
“Sir,