Of their part in the Crimean campaign, and the Charge in particular, this is already well known and does not need retelling here. The number of men on parade that morning of the 25th of October 1854, and the total of dead, wounded and missing at the roll-call, tell their own story.

During the campaign the regiment received 14 officers and 336 other ranks in re-inforcements, lost 5 officers and 110 other ranks dead from various causes, and 16 officers and 70 other ranks were invalided home.

About the middle of November 1855 the regiment left Balaclava for Ismid aboard the Candia and Etna, with a strength of 15 officers and 241 other ranks, and 224 horses – a corporal and five men having been left behind in the Crimea to do orderly work.

Here it remained until April 1856. A sergeant's party of 17 men and 16 horses left for England aboard the Oneida on the 27th April, and the bulk – 18 officers and 442 men with 171 horses – embarked in the Candia, arriving at Queenstown on the 14 of May. The only casualty on this voyage was a single horse.

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