The half-yearly inspection of the regiment was made by Brigadier Adams, C.B., commanding the southern Mahratta division, on the 7th November, 1860, at Belgaum. The wing of the regiment which had been on detachment at Kolapore since May, 1860, joined head-quarters on November 27th, 1860. [Sidenote: 1861.] The medals awarded by her Majesty to the officers and men who had been engaged with the enemy during the Indian Mutiny were received from the Adjutant-General, Horse Guards, on 2nd February, 1861, and on 11th February they were presented to those entitled to them on a parade of the garrison of Belgaum by Miss Straith, the step-daughter of the brigadier commanding. The officers of the regiment who were presented with the Indian war medal were:-- Lieut.-Col. Steele, C.B. Lieut.-Col. Heatly. Captain Pigott. Lieut.-Col. C. W. Austen. Captain Wright. Captain Wakefield. Captain Minhear. Captain Meurant. Captain Baumgartner. Captain Gandy. Captain Gore. Captain Molony. Adjutant J. N. Colthurst. Lieutenant Browne. Lieutenant Wardell. Lieutenant Onslow. Lieutenant Karslake. Lieutenant Healy. Lieutenant Coote. Lieutenant Beazley. Lieutenant Huyshe. Lieutenant Pennefather. Lieutenant Anderson. Paymaster Swinburne. Assistant-Surgeon Touch. Assistant-Surgeon W. Sharp. Quartermaster Hayes. Captain Sprot. Lieutenant-Colonel Steele, who had commanded the regiment in several engagements in the early part of the Mutiny, had been decorated by her Majesty with the insignia of a Companion of the Bath for his services. The half-yearly inspection of the regiment was made by Brigadier Adams, C.B., commanding the southern Mahratta division on April 25th, 1861. A frock of scarlet serge, and a wicker helmet covered with grey linen, with a turban round it, were ordered to be adopted by the regiments in India, in supersession of the shell jacket and chaco hitherto worn, and the regiment was provided with them accordingly about this time. Intimation was received in August that the regiment was to embark for England in the approaching cold season. On the 18th November, his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay presidency, having visited Belgaum on a tour of inspection, went through the barracks of the regiment, and afterwards reviewed the 83rd on a brigade field-day, at the conclusion of which he was pleased to make a speech to the regiment, in which he expressed his approbation of the state of the corps in the strongest terms; his Excellency used the words that “he never in the course of his service had seen a regiment in higher order, and that he should not fail to report accordingly to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief.”