1846
The regiment resumed its march on the 1st of January, 1846, and arrived at Agra on the 7th of February, where it was stationed during the remainder of the year.
1847
Leaving Agra on the 15th of January, 1847, the regiment arrived at Cawnpore on the 1st of February. From Cawnpore the regiment proceeded, in November, to Calcutta, at which place it arrived on the 30th of December.
Orders were at this period given for the return to England of the TWENTY-FIRST, ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS, and three hundred and ninety-three soldiers transferred their services to other regiments remaining in India.
In January, 1848, the regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Thomas Hill, embarked at Calcutta, and arrived at Gravesend on the 11th of May.
The regiment was, in the first instance, stationed at Canterbury, from which city it proceeded to Edinburgh in July, 1848.
On the 1st of June, 1849, the period to which this Record has been continued, the regiment continued to be stationed at Edinburgh Castle, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gore Browne.