| In 1857, the 41st embarked at Portsmouth
for the West Indies to serve in garrison at Trinidad, Barbados
and Jamaica until April 1860. At Sheffield in 1862, the Regiment
received a white billygoat from the Royal herd as replacement
for its Russian goat which had died in the West Indies.
In 1865 the Regiment embarked from Ireland
for India. Service in the sub-continent was followed in 1874
by a year in the Aden garrison, prior to returning to the
United Kingdom in March 1875. Service at home, which included
some time in Pembrokeshire, was followed in 1880 by seven
months in the Gibraltar garrison and then service in Natal
policing the colony in the aftermath of the Zulu War. In July
1881, a new territorial system saw the 41st (The Welch) united
there with the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment to form
respectively the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Welsh Regiment.
The reorganisation saw the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry
Militia become the Regiment's 3rd Battalion and four South
Wales Rifle Volunteer Corps affiliated as Volunteer Battalions
of the Regiment. A new regimental depot was established at
the then-recently completed Maindy Barracks, Cardiff.
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