At the end of November 1830, the 27th Inniskilling Regiment, having completed seven years of service in the West Indies, embarked at Barbados in three ships; their destination was Cork. The years in the tropics had taken many lives. The graveyards in the various Colonies where the Regiment had been quartered – Demerara, Berbice, St Vincent, Grenada and Barbados – contained the remains of 302 Inniskillings.