1837.
In February 1837 the service companies proceeded from St. Lucia to Barbadoes.
1838.
The depôt companies were removed from Devonport to Kinsale in June 1838.
On the 10th of November 1838, the service companies embarked at Barbadoes for Nova Scotia, and arrived at Halifax on the 8th of December.
The following extract of a letter to the Adjutant-General from Lieut.-General Sir Samford Whittingham, K.C.B., Commanding in the Windward and Leeward Islands, is highly creditable to the Thirty-sixth regiment, and is, therefore, here inserted.
“Head-Quarters, Barbadoes,
“14th November 1838.
“The Thirty-sixth regiment was prepared to embark in four and twenty hours after the arrival of the ‘Hercules,’ but the embarkation was delayed, in consequence of the captain reporting that he could not be ready to receive the troops on board till the 10th.
“I feel much pleasure in stating that the embarkation, the whole of which I witnessed, was conducted in the most orderly and soldier-like manner, and I did not perceive a single case of drunkenness.
“I have the honour to enclose copy of the farewell Order I issued on the departure of this old and distinguished corps, as also an embarkation return of it, and a disembarkation return of the Fifty-second regiment.”