[2] First assembled in Dover in early 1788,[3] the regiment arrived in India in August 1788,[4] and saw action at the siege of Seringapatam in February 1792 in the Third Anglo-Mysore War[5] and the capture of the Dutch settlements in Ceylon in 1795.

[11] On 29 May 1807 one of the ships carrying the soldiers home, the East Indiaman Ganges, was off the Cape of Good Hope when she sprang a leak.

There was no loss of life; the East Indiaman St Vincent, which was in company, managed to get all 203 or 209 persons on board Ganges off, including a number of soldiers from the regiment.

[2] It took part in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in autumn 1809[14] and, having been granted permission to bear the plumes and motto of the Prince of Wales as a badge in commemoration of twenty years service in India in February 1810,[15] it embarked for Spain in June 1811 for service in the Peninsular War.

[32] Sergeant John Park and Private Alexander Wright were awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions during the war.