The 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers left Cairo for Suez on 18 October 1927 and sailed aboard the Nevasa for Bombay, India. They arrived complete at Akbar Barracks, Agra by 1 November. Life in the stations of Cairo and Agra was reflected on by an officer writing for the regimental magazine, The Faugh-a-Ballagh:

Agra, moreover, though admittedly not such a lively spot, is like Cairo world famous for its old monuments: and to many people the Taj Mahal and the Fort seem better worth visiting than the Pyramids and the Sphinx; while in either case … one is being paid to live in a place for the pleasure of visiting which many people are prepared to pay a great deal of money.