In June 1830, the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment proceeded from Birr to Fermoy, and was formed into six _service_ and four _depôt_ companies. The service companies embarked at Cork on the 11th, 13th, and 14th of October for the West Indies. The depôt companies remained at Fermoy for a short time, and were afterwards stationed at Spike Island. The service companies disembarked at Barbadoes on the 20th, 21st, and 28th of November. [Sidenote: 1831.] The service companies suffered severely during the great hurricane in Barbadoes in 1831, having eleven men killed, and several severely injured. The depôt companies were removed from Spike Island to Charles Fort, Kinsale, in October 1831, and continued there during 1832. [Sidenote: 1833.] The service companies which had, since their arrival in the West Indies, remained at Barbadoes, were removed to Antigua in February 1833. The depôt companies proceeded from Charles Fort to Ballincollig in January 1833; to Cork in February; to Templemore in August, and to Nenagh in October following. [Sidenote: 1834.] During the year 1834, the service companies remained at Antigua. The depôt companies were removed in October from Nenagh to Limerick. [Sidenote: 1835.] In November 1835 the service companies proceeded from Antigua to St. Lucia. The depôt companies quitted Limerick for Galway in May 1835, and marched for Cork in June following, where they embarked for Plymouth on the 14th of September; during the remainder of the year they were stationed at Devonport. [Sidenote: 1836.] During the year 1836, the service companies remained at St. Lucia, and the depôt at Devonport. [Sidenote: 1837.] In February 1837 the service companies proceeded from St. Lucia to Barbadoes. [Sidenote: 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.”