1820. Both ships continued to New Zealand to harvest kauri trees for use as spars for first rate (98 gun) Royal Navy warships. Two officers and a detachment of the regiment remained on HMS Dromedary for the eleven month expedition to the Bay of Islands and Whangaroa. The battalion was sent to Jamaica, where it helped quell the slave riots, in 1827. The regiment remained in the West Indies until 1839 when it returned home. The regiment was sent to Burma in 1842 and to India in 1845. The regiment was involved in the Siege of Cawnpore and the Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion. General James Outram wrote of the regiment: After Cawnpore and Lucknow were recaptured the regiment was involved in the protection of the countryside under Brigadier John Douglas who wrote: The regiment was the only formation ever to receive a salute from the battery at Fort William, Calcutta and received that acclaim when it left India in 1859. It was deployed to Malta in 1865 and to Jamaica in 1867 before going on to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1870. It returned home in 1871. As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 84th was linked with the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no. 7 at Pontefract Barracks in Yorkshire. On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot to form the York and Lancaster Regiment, with the 84th becoming the 2nd Battalion. Victoria Crosses The 84th Foot had six Victoria Crosses awarded to men serving in its ranks all won during the Indian Mutiny : Captain Augustus Anson Lance-corporal Abraham Boulger Private Joel Holmes Sergeant-major George Lambert Private Patrick Mylott Corporal John Sinnott Battle honours Battle honours won by the regiment were: Peninsular War: Nive, Peninsula India, Lucknow Colonels of the Regiment Colonels of the Regiment were: 84th Regiment of Foot 1794–1820: Gen. George Bernard 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot - (1809) 1820–1822: Gen. Sir George Townsend Walker, Bt, GCB 1822–1823: Maj-Gen. Sir Denis Pack, KCB 1823–1840: Gen. Sir Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton Maclean, Bt 1840–1854: Gen. Sir Loftus William Otway, CB 1854–1868: Gen. Sir George Augustus Wetherall, GCB, KH 1868–1872: Gen.